"McGraw was an improviser, a teacher. He brought much to the game that keeps baseball fresh and suspenseful today—the …"

"He wanted to win so badly it killed him. But before it killed him, it elevated the game of baseball, at the Polo Grou…"

"He supported himself at odd jobs until he won himself a place on the Olean (New York) professional team at sixteen an…"

"Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personali…"

"When young persons are summoned from this world ere they have mingled in its sinful pursuits, they can be readily yie…"

"• Let the future historian, if he will, add beauty of expression and the charm of polished diction to this plain, unp…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"Arise, O Soul, and gird thee up anew, Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate; No beggar thou that thou for al…"