Sentence examples for obsession with baseball from inspiring English sources

Auster's usual motifs — a figure who disappears from his own life, a prominent role for chance and coincidence, an obsession with baseball and old movies — eventually take over the novel, with familiar results.

But the scenes that really raise the temperature are those that celebrate the playwright's obsession with baseball, as embodied by one dumpy, lonely money manager, portrayed to idiosyncratic perfection by Denis O'Hare.

During a rare break from these meetings, Boras talked about his lifelong obsession with baseball and dismissed the notion that the big contracts he has won could undermine the sport.

And it has supercharged our obsession with baseball statistics, such as batting averages, earned run averages and home run races, which can be updated in real time.

My obsession with baseball naturally fluctuates with respect to football season.

It wasn't until many years later, after I started having children, that my obsession with baseball returned.

Sugar, the boxing man who has a sub-obsession with baseball, brought along a copy of his new book, "Baseballistics," to prove it.

If you have always found America's choice of pastime a bit strange, Ben Halls' article for Vice Sports might help explain their obsession with minor league baseball.

Mr. Rosen, who got the nickname Mr. Mint during his Paterson childhood for his obsession with mint-condition baseball cards, has been a full-time dealer since 1982, and says he's bought and sold $115 million worth of baseball collectibles and his clients include Spike Lee, Len Berman and Reggie Jackson.

I keep thinking, however, about an e-mail that James sent me after I visited him in Kansas, in which he tried to explain the connection between his obsession with crime stories and baseball.

"I have less of a problem with baseball becoming a Sabermetrics obsession and a constant source of prognostication.