My views are just about the same as Casey's.

You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.

I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!