Quote of the Day (Roger Angell, on 'All Sporting Memories')

"All sporting memories are suspect - the colors too bright, the players and their feats magnified in our wishful recapturing. The surprising rally or splendid catch becomes incomparable by the time we fight free of the parking lot, epochal before bedtime, transcendental by breakfast." – New Yorker baseball writer extraordinaire and fiction editor Roger Angell, "7 Mets Redux," in Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion (1977)

(See today’s “This Day in Baseball History” post for one particular venue where sporting memories were created)