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

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

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

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.

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.

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.