Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.
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.