Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.