Jimmy Cannon
Jimmy Cannon
Jimmy Cannon was a sports journalist inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of the sport...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth5 December 1973
CountryUnited States of America
baseball curves giving
[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.
sports baseball player
It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball.
yankees yankees-baseball new-york-yankees
Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.
baseball drinking party
He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.
work men lazy-man
I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.
women dope buying
Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.
race boxing credit
Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.
hockey games would-be
Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.
england actors fats
England produces the best fat actors.
average lasts rooms
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.
boyhood
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.
sports writing guy
A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong
stay-strong togas actors
I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.
sports character greatness
He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.