"Every now and then, I get a free ticket from someone, and I look at the price, and it says $800, and I’m thinking, ‘A thousand dollars to see,’ I said, ‘There’s no ballgame in the world worth that kind of money,’ and yet the attendance for sports is more than it ever has been."
- Frank DefordFor more than fifty years, Frank Deford, a well-known American journalist, covered sports. He had a knack for picking up on the subtleties of how people interact with sports and their social relevance. He made an intriguing observation regarding the importance that sports fans attach to going to gam…