Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
“Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.”
“You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.”