Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic, can ever be plausible again. - Red Smith
I thought of Ted [Williams] and Bobby [Doerr] and Dom [DiMaggio] today. I thought of Vern [Stephens] and Boo Ferriss. Great players. Great people. We had great teams. We had great people. I wish some of them were still here to see this. They'd be very proud. - Johnny Pesky