Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.