Author: Red Smith

When Lew was a twenty game winner for the Milwaukee Braves, people needed three columns for his pitching record: won, lost and relative humidity.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Baseball Sports

Baseball is dull only to those with dull minds.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Baseball Intelligence People Sports

I took my parents back to the airport today. They leave tomorrow.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Misspokements

He is the best left fielder the Cardinals have, the best center fielder they have, the best first baseman they have. He is, in short, the best ball club in St. Louis and one of the best in the world.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Baseball Sports

Dying is no big deal, living is the trick.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Death Life

I understand, Moe, that you are in counter-intelligence, which, I assume, means you are against intelligence.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Baseball Intelligence Sports

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans… that puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Insults

It was an ideal day for football – too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Cold Football Science/Weather Sports

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close a man has ever come to perfection.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Baseball Sports

Sleep came as it must come to all British heavyweights, midway in the fifth round.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Boxing Sports

Writing is easy. You just open a vein and bleed.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Communication Reading/Writing

Baseball owners have moral scruples against taking any man’s dollar when there is a chance to take a dollar and a quarter.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Baseball Money Sports