Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
“Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.”
“Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.”