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] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

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

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

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

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.