What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.