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Jane Leavy has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly,…
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When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.
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In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York…
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On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and…
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He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many…
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Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.
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Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great,…
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Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman…
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Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was…
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There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom…
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Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision,…
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I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The…
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Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you.
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