Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

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.

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

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?

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

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