There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?

I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?