I never heard a thrown ball make that sound before. The ball seemed to — Roger Kahn

"The gracious mistress turned bitch in summer heat."

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it."

"In the dead sunlight of a forgotten spring the major leaguers were trim, graceful and effortless. They might have been gods for these seemed true Olympians to a boy who wanted to become a manand who sensed that it was an exalted manly thing to catch a ball with one hand thrust across your body and make a crowd leap to its feet and cheer."

"Defeat, particularly dramatic defeat, confirms our worst impression of ourselves."

"The immeasurable difference between producing cars and producing newspapers is pursuit of the horizon."

"No game is as verbal as baseball; baseball spreads twenty minutes of action across three hours of a day."