Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.