A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball.

I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

England produces the best fat actors.

He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.