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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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[Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke…
— Lee Trevino
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I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.
— Jack Nicklaus
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I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want…
— Jack Nicklaus
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Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.
— Bob Hope
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My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone…
— Roddy Piper
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I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.
— Molly Sims
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Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather…
— Bruce Lansky
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I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is…
— Sandy Koufax
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Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as…
— Jonah Goldberg
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In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.
— Martin Ryle
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Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant;…
— Byron Nelson
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The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year…
— Earl Weaver
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