A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.
– Roger Kahn
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
– Roger Kahn
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
– Roger Kahn
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
– Roger Kahn
Horse racing is animated roulette.
– Roger Kahn
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.