It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.
If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?
The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.
People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.
Mickey Mantle was baseball.
It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.