"to organize the daylight"

"There comes a time when every summer will have something of autumn about it. Whatever the reason, it seemed to me that I was investing more and more in baseball, making the game do more of the work that keeps time fat and slow and lazy. I was counting on the game's deep patterns, three strikes, three outs, three times three innings, and its deepest impulse, to go out and back, to leave and return home, to set the order of the day and to organize the daylight. - -A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI, "The Green Fields of the Mind""

"BART: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti" by Anthony Valerio, Robert Brower: https://a.co/cii31HQ