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Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.
Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.
Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.
My best girl is dead.
Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.
Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.
It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them
Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.
In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.