I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

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.

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.

Those people don't know how tough that really was.