Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.

I’ve never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Today a pitcher gets fined if the umpire thinks he threw at a batter. In the olden days, the umpire didn’t have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was...