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

But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

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