My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
Have never been a minor league fan.
He bats like a lightning rod.
The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.