My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.

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

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

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.

If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.