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.

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

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

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.

Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.