What the hell difference does it make?

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)