Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved. - Red Smith
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
- Red Smith
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patin… - Red Smith
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patin…
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. - Red Smith
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never… - Red Smith
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never…
Today's game is always different from yesterday's game. - Red Smith
Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter. - Red Smith
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.
My best girl is dead. - Red Smith
My best girl is dead.
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them. - Red Smith
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to m… - Red Smith
I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to m…
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