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

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

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

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

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.