Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.

I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball’s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself…Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.