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

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Roger Kahn quotes in our collection. Roger Kahn is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Roger Kahn
251

I covered a team that no longer exists in a demolished ballpark for a newspaper that is dead.

Roger Kahn
232
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye. -Roger Kahn
172

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Roger Kahn
167

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
157
I see the boys of summer in their ruin. -Roger Kahn
155

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Roger Kahn
125