Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.

Yeah, Stevie thought, you should probably pick up when the vice president of the United States calls.

I feel like if they can handle me, they can probably handle any crowd on the road or any kind of adversity that may come up in a game.

Teenage boys fall in love with girls who have blond hair and blue eyes. Basketball coaches fall in love with players who have a cerebral court sense and a great jump shot.

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

Goldsboro, North Carolina.

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.

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

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

Never be proud of doing the right thing;.