All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

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.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

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?

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.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.