An island of surety in a changing world.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.