And, yet, it's a loneliness shared with 40,000 other...

And, yet, it's a loneliness shared with 40,000 other people. Go figure.

mightyflynn:

Of all team sports, baseball, with its graceful intermittences of action, its immense and tranquil field sparsely settled with poised men in white, its dispassionate mathematics, seems to be best suited to accommodate, and be ornamented by, a loner. It is an essentially lonely game.

- John Updike

(Photo: Billy Joe Davidson, 1951, by Ralph Crane)