He Bats Like A Lightning

Until Color Tv Came Along, Bw Tv Was Too Muddy To Be Enjoyable.

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.

Other People Get Into Occupations By Accident Or Design; But Writers Are Born. I Could Work At Selling Motels, Or Slopping Hogs, For Fifty Years, But If Someone Asked My Occupation, I'd Say Writer, Even If I'd Never Sold A Word. Writers Write. Other People Talk.

I Think It Is Worse [in 2015] For A Mid-list Author Such As Myself. You Either Have To Sell Like Stephen King Or Go With The Small Presses Where There Is No Money. I Was Lucky To Have Been In The Right Place And Time For Many Years.

My Dad Talked A Good Game. [i'm As A] Child Got Only The World Series On The Radio.