The New York Game Quotes

“I understand that a curve ball is thrown with a deliberate purpose to deceive. Surely this is not an ability we should want to foster at Harvard.”
― Kevin Baker, The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

“The game of baseball offered an entertainment that was not as dramatic as a fire, but one that moved with the pace of the city, the nation, the time. Whitman called it "America's game; it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere; it belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws; it is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.”
― Kevin Baker, The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

“I believe that baseball is a homeopathic cure for lunacy,” a Dr. S. B. Talcott, superintendent of New York’s State Lunatic Asylum, told the press. “It is a kind of craze in itself, and it gives the lunatics a new kind of crazing to relieve them of the malady which afflicts their minds.”
― Kevin Baker, The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

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― Kevin Baker, The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

“The following year, Octavius Catto, just thirty-two, was murdered during a contentious Philadelphia election, shot dead on the street for trying to vote by one Frank Kelly, an Irish tough from the city’s Democratic political machine. Kelly would be acquitted. Catto would be honored with a statue in front of Philadelphia’s city hall—146 years later.”
― Kevin Baker, The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City