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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

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

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

— Heywood Broun

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

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts

— Heywood Broun

“He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things.”

— Heywood Broun

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

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

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

— Heywood Broun

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

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

— Heywood Broun

The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

— Heywood Broun