"Official scorers, rule makers and others identified with the statistical end of baseball, should get together soon on…"

"When a man of his natural physique can eat what he wants, drink what he wants and do what he pleases in the open air …"

"Pitt is credited with having been the first team to identify its football players by numbers on the uniforms. It star…"

"James Jerpe, the sporting writer of Pittsburg [sic] who has been blind for the two past years but continues his good …"

"For all practical purposes, wheat is civilization. It produces what we euphemistically call the staff of life, a staf…"

"For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, alm…"

"Chicago is stupefying. It knows no rules, and I know none by which to judge it. It stands apart from all the cities i…"

"Kansas used to believe in Populism and free silver. It now believes in hot summers and a hot hereafter."

"It was a Native Son who, when asked by an Englishman, visiting the United States for the first time, to name the Seve…"

"The Arkansawyers are of the type of the old Hoosiers, Crackers, Pikers, and the Big Smoky mountaineers. The Hoosiers …"