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

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

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

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.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.