[RabidBartender]

"whipping a throw to first that would have thrown a bullet right through a horsefly perched on a hitching post. "

I wish today's sports writers had this eloquence. Excellent read, thanks.

[BluesDuke]

I wish today's sports writers had this eloquence. Excellent read, thanks.

I only wish I had the eloquence of the genuine greats of the genre---Roger Angell (he isn't baseball's Homer, Homer was ancient Greece's Roger Angell), Thomas Boswell, Jim Murray, Red Smith, William Nack, W.C. Heinz, Shirley Povich . . . (Boswell, Smith, Murray, and Povich were the best newspaper baseball writers I ever read; Angell, Heinz, and Nack are the best of the magazine scribes . . .)