No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. The versions while differing share a core theme surrounding the girl and the puppeteer.

Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. Paul William Gallico (July 26 1897 – July 15 1976) was a successful American novelist short story and sports writer.