Somewhere, at some point in his life, Dan Jenkins was a baseball fan, even though his most famous quote on the sport isn’t exactly a full-throated endorsement:
“Baseball would be a better game if more third baseman got hit in the mouth by line drivers.”
But good news appeared to be on the horizon. In a 2014 Texas Monthly interview, Jenkins said that because of the “sameness” of the NBA and, to a degree, the NFL, “they’re about to chase me back to being a baseball fan.”
Maybe, hopefully, he got back there.
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Jenkins, the Fort Worth native, TCU graduate, world-class sportswriter and fame author, died Thursday at age 89.