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.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

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

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

Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

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