If you build it, he will come.

"This must be heaven", he says. "No. It's Iowa," I reply automatically

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.