Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

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

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

I just reared back and let them go.