It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.

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

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

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.

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.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

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.