I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.