Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

I just reared back and let them go.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.