It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.
My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
Have never been a minor league fan.
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
1946, if my memory is correct. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.