106 Quotes by George Vecsey

For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.

I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms.

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.

Into La Bombonera danced the most agile, rhythmic, beautiful, sensuous people I have ever seen. And that was just the fans.

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.