"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
"Thar ain’t much t' bein' a ballplayer, if ye’re a ballplayer."
"Things be changin' fast by that time, lasses be beginnin' t' come t' th' ball parks. We had t' avast cussin'."
"I nereben sea sick. I dasn't e'en know what 't means t' be sea sick. I hear other players say they be havin' a cold. I jus' dasn't know what 't would feel like t' be havin' a cold - I nerehad one."
"In all me voyages o' play, I neresaw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw `em." #