I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.

He bats like a lightning rod.