When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world." — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time,… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with." — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Men build bridges and throw railways across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on.… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
