I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?

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

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

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

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.