Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.

There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

Baseball is a game of inches.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.