Randy W. Roberts > Quotes

“More than other sports, baseball, Halberstam observed, depends on statistics because they give meaning to the game’s mythology. A player’s “performance is not fulfilling enough,” he wrote. “It must be shown in quantified heroics, records to be set and broken, new myths and heroes to replace the old.”9”
― Randy Roberts, A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle

“It turns out that Mantle was an indifferent student of his own career. In that regard he was like his teammate Yogi Berra, who once commented, “I never said most of the things I said.”5”
― Randy Roberts, A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle

“The federal government, in its own way, had cut off his balls. It had symbolically lynched Jack Johnson.”
― Randy W. Roberts, Joe Louis