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

He bats like a lightning rod.

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.

At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

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.