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

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

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

My best girl is dead.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

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.