Jane Leavy Quotes

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• In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the…
• There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me…
• When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.
• In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
• On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for…
• He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends, and…
• Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.
• Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and…
• Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est…
• Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager…
• There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
• Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and…
• In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey…
• Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train…
• The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
• Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity,…

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