I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.