Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’

With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.