A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong
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.
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.