The Baseball 100

by Joe Posnanski

What is childhood but a gradual realization?

The most wonderful things so often begin in the plainest ways.

How different was Mickey? At his retirement, there had been 10 seasons when a switch-hitter smashed 30 home runs. All 10 belonged to Mickey Mantle.

The magician Teller told Esquire’s Chris Jones one of my favorite ever bits of wisdom: “Sometimes magic is just spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.”