You may glory in a team triumphant, ... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.
You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
I covered a team that no longer exists in a demolished ballpark for a newspaper that is dead,