Editor’s Note: April marks the beginning of a new baseball season. Baseball has produced its fair share of quotable players, Yogi Berra foremost. But this spring, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee, a Rastafarian, comes to mind. One of the more colorful players in baseball history, Lee — while discussing how pitchers must not overthink while on the mound — is credited with voicing his views on church-state separation:
“When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It’s like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.” – Bill Lee