A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.
In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.