STONE: The old and the restless

You learn something when you listen to old people. They ain’t all fools. You don’t get to be old being no fool. At 98 years young, Art Schallock is the world’s oldest former Major League Baseball player.

Stone: Serious pay gaps among NFL players

The one who sang or danced the best, the handsomest, the strongest, the most adroit or the most eloquent became the most highly considered; and this was the first step toward inequality and vice: from these first preferences arose vanity and contempt on the one hand, and shame and envy on the other.

Stone: Don’t do it, Rob

You can observe a lot just by watching. Yogi Berra Last week, my column was diverted from the sports section to the editorial pages even though I included the word “baseball” in the headline to preserve my spot.