Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

No one man is superior to the game.