Jim "Mudcat" Grant

•Dave McNally, Oriole pitcher and American Legion Baseball's Graduate of the Year, on how his mother encouraged him to play: "She always said, 'Have a good time; you'll be working the rest of your life.' "

Jazz Pianist Ramsey Lewis was advised by his astrologer not to attend the Cubs' home opener, but Lewis decided to go anyway. So on the way to Wrigley Field he was involved in an automobile accident, after he got...

Sandy Koufax was golfing at La Costa Country Club, just north of San Diego, and one of his efforts winged into the rough. "No, no," a pro told him. "Get that left arm all the way around! Straighten it out!" "If I...

It was the day after his Minnesota Twins had lost the seventh game of the World Series. Sam Mele was worrying about his wife and their overdue baby during the flight to his home near Boston, but something else was...