Growing Up Is A Ritual, More Deadly

He Bats Like A Lightning Rod.

Most People Write A Lot Of Autobiography, But When I Came To Write Autobiography I Discovered That Nothing Interesting Had Ever Happened To Me. So I Had To Take The Situation And Invent Stories To Go With It.

America Has Been Erased Like A Blackboard, Only To Be Rebuilt And Then Erased Again. But Baseball Has Marked Time While America Has Rolled By Like A Procession Of Steamrollers.

Baseball Is The Most Perfect Of Games, Solid, True, Pure And Precious As Diamonds. If Only Life Were So Simple. Within The Baselines Anything Can Happen. Tides Can Reverse; Oceans Can Open. That's Why They Say, "the Game Is Never Over Until The Last Man Is Out." Colors Can Change, Lives Can Alter, Anything Is Possible In This Gentle, Flawless, Loving Game.

I've Played [scrabble] Tournaments For About 20 Years. My Daughter, Erin, Who Lives With Me, Also Travels To Tournaments. While I'm Not A Top Division Player, I've Won A Number Of Tournaments.