“You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could tou...” — Sparky Anderson Quote

“You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.”

“The players make the manager, it's never the other way.”

“We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.”

“In some ways, writing a novel, especially a novel set in the past and about characters who once lived, is about amassing enough details and arranging them properly in order to offer the reader a verisimilitude that satisfies his or her curiosity about the story at hand.”

“I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the wild, passionate creative temperament.”

“I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and other things.”