I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.

Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.

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

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

My main income came from failed movie and TV options.

I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.

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