The Grandest Stage Quotes

“It’s so easy for people that aren’t there to say, ‘I wouldn’t have done that,’ ” Francona says. “Well, you know what? You didn’t earn the right to make that decision. He did.”
― Tyler Kepner, The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series

“Doesn’t every other field do that, when you have to make decisions with imperfect information in a probabilistic world? I don’t think baseball’s immune to that. So that’s it: we’re not trying to script it, we don’t think they’re robots. We’ve noticed that they’re human beings and they have emotions.”
― Tyler Kepner, The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series

“A decision is only a guess, an attempt to influence a desired result.”
― Tyler Kepner, The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series

“Show me a cheerful loser and I’ll show you a lunatic,” Gowdy said in his postgame column for United News wire service. “I never made an alibi in my life and I’m too old to start.”
― Tyler Kepner, The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series

“We go through that grind—spring training, 162 games, playoffs, World Series—and you’re close to those people. I think about them a lot, and every time I look at that ring, I see them.”
― Tyler Kepner, The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series