Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.