I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

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

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

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.