Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.
Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.
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.
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.