Wellesley

Famous quotes containing the word wellesley:

    I’ve always had the notion that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again.
    —Walter Wellesley (Red)

    In the eighth, Hermanski smashed a drive to the scoreboard. Henrich backed against the board and leaped either four or fourteen feet into the air. He stayed aloft so long he looked like an empty uniform hanging in its locker. When he came down he had the ball.
    —Walter Wellesley (Red)

    In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.
    —Walter Wellesley (Red)