Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.