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

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.

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

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.

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

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