Sports Quote of the Month
“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person,
stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball”
James Patrick Murray (1919-1998)
American sportswriter at the Los Angeles Times from 1961 to 1998.
In 1990, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his 1989 columns,
and the Baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the J. G. Taylor Spink Award in 1987.