The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.