Aware, but unself-conscious, Reese and Robinson came to personify integration. If a man didn’t like what they personified, why, he better not play for the Dodgers.

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care....

I covered a team that no longer exists in a demolished ballpark for a newspaper that is dead,

You may glory in a team triumphant… But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. But more, we remember because we feel the ache of guilt and regret. While they were...

A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

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...

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

The Boys of Summer.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

I see the boys of summer in their ruin.

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker’s responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

That’s why you never saw him on TV during the Republican National Convention. Even they were too embarrassed to show him.

So this is the first book I’ve written with a title supplied by a major league ballplayer,

[Author of the best-seller] The Boys of Summer, … The Head Game

The only reason I’m running is because I feel Bob Barr is the wrong man for Georgia and the wrong man for our country.

Look at the national furor it caused. If baseball is losing its hold on the people, why is everybody having a nervous breakdown because Rocker said some dumb things? I think baseball still has a...

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

They lost, and they lost in unusual ways.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

He was Jackie Robinson’s friend,

Pique or policy. We would never know.

You may glory in a team triumphant, … But you fall in love with a team in defeat.