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

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

If you build it, he will come.

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

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.

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.

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