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.

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

At my best I was as good as anyone.

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.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.