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.
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.
Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.
I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.