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

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

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.

Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.

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