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.

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

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

If you build it, he will come.

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

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

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.