The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker Review
For instance,
“It may be that, compared to managers’ dreams such as Joe DeMaggio and the always helpful Stan Musial, Williams is an icy star. But of all team sports, baseball, with its grateful intermittences of action, its immense and tranquil field sparsely settled with poised men in white, its dispassionate mathematics, seems to me best suited to accommodate, and be ornamented by, a loner. It is an essentially lonely game. No other played visible in my generation has concentrated within himself so much of the sport’s poignance, has so assiduously refined his natural skills, has so consistently bought to the plate that intensity of competence that crowds the throat with joy.”
from Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
by John Updike
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