“For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you considered it an art: an apparently pointless affair, undertaken by people with a special aptitude, which sidestepped attempts to paraphrase its value yet somehow seemed to communicate something true or even crucial about The Human Condition. The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.”
Pages 256-7. By Chad Harbach. Little, Brown & Co, 2011. Buy it. Read it.
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One of the best sports books I’ve ever read.
Wow, VERY Succinctly put. You write so well Superscout- this read has so many different levels all at once, yet somehow you can feel the raw essence throughout the entire read.
Just loved it, and for me, THE best sport read ever.
Just finished it. Majestic, sad, sweet – and above all, true. Well done Chad Harbach.
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