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.

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.

I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

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.

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