Surely these fine athletes, those boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin. - Roger Kahn

The immeasurable difference between producing cars and producing newspapers is pursuit of the horizon.

In the dead sunlight of a forgotten spring the major leaguers were trim, graceful and effortless. They might have been gods for these seemed true Olympians to a boy who wanted to become a manand who sensed that it was an exalted manly thing to catch a ball with one hand thrust across your body and make a crowd leap to its feet and cheer.

The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.