>The most expert and treasured contributor to the sports page, in his view, was the baseball writer. The circulation people had told him that 25 percent of the paper’s sales were attributable to the sports pages, which was why they were allotted as much as 15 percent of the total daily news hole, and the biggest reader attractions were the coverage of, in order, baseball, football, and boxing; thus, a good baseball writer was “worth more to a paper perhaps than anyone else.”

-Richard Kluger, “The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune”