Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

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

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

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.