Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.