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"So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting."
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"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
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"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."
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"Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen."
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"I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special."
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"It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former."
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"I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!"
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"You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair."
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"A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
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"Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys."
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"Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen."
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"I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too."
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"Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it."
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"In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players."
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"So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting."
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