Tears are words the heart can't express

The simple beauty of August's words struck me profoundly. The lines just seemed to have a life of their own leading me along as I read it.

[Quotable:] The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come. ... Field of Dreams

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.