I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.
I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college
When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?
The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.
The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform
If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen
I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.