The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.