The Providence Journal on Babe Ruth

in 1914, playing for the Providence Grays:

"Babe Ruth seems to have gotten in on the ground floor with the fans as a result of his baffling southpaw pitching and his ability to give the horsehide vigorous punishment with the wagon tongue."

  -- from "Babe" by Robert Creamer

"Ham, ham, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, ham, ham HAW!"

Nicholson Baker, "House of Holes"

Wolcott Gibbs on Thomas Dewey

"Dewey, whose indifference to money is such that he can remember offhand how much he was making at any given day in his life . . . ."

[Dewey, District Attorney at the time, responded to Gibbs' criticism by having Gibbs' bank account impounded.]


from "Backwards Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs"