22 Quotes by John Feinstein

Penn was not a 'mid-major' then. Penn was an elite program.

There's one coach we all know cheats, everyone knows it. A few years ago, he made the Final Four. His president heard all the accusations, knew his graduation rate was awful and what did he do? He gave him a $ 1.7 million-a-year contract. What kind of message is that?

It was an inexcusable mistake, ... I regretted it probably some kind of nano second after it was out of my mouth. I apologize to everybody who was listening and to the people at the academy who have been great to me and to my partners in the booth.

Never be proud of doing the right thing;.

Susan Carol had arrived at the stadium with Bobby Kelleher and Tamara Mearns.

They walked through the hallways of the stadium, Dowling taking him on a tour of every locker room in the building.

You see,” Bouton wrote, “you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” Truer words were never written.

Goldsboro, North Carolina.

You don’t often see Bobby Kelleher completely flustered, but he was that time.