Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that baseball, often viewed as just a game, is rich with significance and depth.
George Will's quote challenges the perception that baseball trivia lacks importance, suggesting instead that every aspect of the game, even seemingly minor details, holds considerable value and contributes to the overall narrative and culture of baseball. It highlights the passion and complexity that fans and analysts find in the sport, arguing that what may appear trivial is actually an integral part of understanding and appreciating the game.
In practice
During a baseball seminar, a speaker could use this quote to emphasize the depth of statistics in understanding the game.
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.
Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.
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