"Finally Jones came in with a blinding fastball, the way Sad Sam used to throw ’em, and Clemente unloaded. The wind wa…"

"In that one moment, during an era in which sluggers threatened to take over the sport, Carl Hubbell had restored to p…"

"When he quit, he grew cotton down South, tinkered in real estate, owned an auto dealership, and made enough money so …"

"The impregnability of his stonewall defense rested on his ability to reach the ball, and then throw it. Now he could …"

"He had made one of the greatest catches in Polo Grounds history; he had played third base as no Giant before or since…"

"When he died, he held fourteen baseball records, a little man with a bashful smile, a silken swing, baseball's legend…"

"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's not really a difficult interview. You just have to catch the essence and rhythm of what he's saying. I'd ask him…"

"Now it was Liddle, jerking into motion as Wertz poised at the plate, and then the motion smoothed out and the ball ca…"