It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

"Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been."

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

"All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon."

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.