"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."
This, one of the most vivid descriptions for the seasons of baseball, is classic Giamatti - Fan of writing, of philosophy and of course, the great romantic past-time, Baseball.
No other sport is as well defined by their seasons as Baseball.
