About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.
[History is] petrified imagination.
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.