He Bats Like A Lightning Rod.

Read! Read! Read! And Then Read Some More. When You Find Something That Thrills You, Take It Apart Paragraph By Paragraph, Line By Line, Word By Word, To See What Made It So Wonderful. Then Use Those Tricks Next Time You Write.

Curt Flood, Of Course, Was In A Class By Himself, A True Hero.

Someone Once Described The Pitching Of A No-hit Game As Like Catching Lighting In A Bottle.

Growing Up Is A Ritual, More Deadly Than Religion, More Complicated Than Baseball, For There Seem To Be No Rules. Everything Is Experienced For The First Time.

Found A Good Voice And Took Advantage Of It. Each Of My Specialties Was Like A Prospector Discovering A Vein Of Gold. I Worked Each Until The Vein Was Exhausted.