Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.

And, finally, sitting — as promised — at home plate, with an occasional coffeepotful of beer, until the sun came up the morning after the Tigers clinched the championship.

The cost of a wedding is pocket change to a millionaire.

Sometimes he laughed heartily as if he heard some capital joke; by degrees this lessened, and he spoke rapidly, but in very low tones.