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.

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

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

I think God always has the best for us.

Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.