It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The Green Fields of the Mind

On baseball.

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Giamatti, A. Bartlett. "The Green Fields of the Mind." The Yale Alumni Magazine, 1977.