I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

Life is more about losing than winning.

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.