"... we had all tried enough times to pass and kick a ball, we
had on our separate rock-strewn sandlots taken enough lumps and
bruises, to know that we were viewing something truly fine,
something that only comes with years of toil, something very
like art." -- Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes.  "Serious sport
has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred,
jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules." --
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant.