Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.

Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.

It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.

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

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