Southpaw Quotes

“Dominic was watching the game in front of him with great detachment, almost as if he were a traveler in a foreign land. It was Jackie Cannon’s words that had created this situation: Dominic could not get rid of the drunk’s words—that they had won only death in 1963, and that even the championship had been bought. The words festered in him. They clattered away in his head like empty bottles. Above all, they made the game itself seem like a threat that he was watching unfold; he watched with detachment, with calmness, but each pitch was possibly lethal—not to the batter but to the world. It seemed that a lifetime of joy and participation was shriveling into a nasty little ball of terror, all of it unfathomable.”
― Frank King, Southpaw: The Big League Horror Novel