“When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.” — Jane Leavy Quote

“When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.”

“Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots Shor's - his preferred drink was waiting when he walked through the door. Reporters waited at his locker for monosyllabic bons mots. Boys clustered by the players' gate, hoping to touch him.”

“Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.”

“I've seen shows where comedians cracked about someone not clapping, then realized they've only got one hand, or joked about someone wearing sunglasses inside, then realized they're blind. I never want to put myself in that situation. I never want to be mean.”

“The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.”

“Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.”