I don't rate them, I just hit them.

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.

"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.