The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should h...
That`s how easy baseball was for me. I`m not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.
People talk about that catch and, I`ve said this many times, that I`ve made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn`t have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn`t see me do a ...