What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.