Always Wanted To Be A Major League

I Love To Play This Game Of Baseball. I Love Putting On The Uniform.

It Seemed Like I Always Did Some Great Hitting In Brooklyn. The Field There Was Close To The Stands. Every Time I Started Walking To The Plate, I Could Hear The Fans Say, 'here Comes That Man Again. Here Comes That Man.'

What I Try To Do Is Never To Hurt Anybody Else And Figure If I Don't, Then I'm Not Likely To Get Hurt Myself.

I Consciously Memorized The Speed At Which Every Pitcher In The League Threw His Fastball, Curve, And Slider; Then, I'd Pick Up The Speed Of The Ball In The First Thirty Feet Of Its Flight And Knew How It Would Move Once It Had Crossed The Plate.

I Think I Had The Smallest Handle Around. When I Got My Bats, I Even Trimmed Them Down. I Used To Scrape Them. Some Years Later When I Started Getting Older, I Used To Start With A 33 And In The Summer It Got Down To 31 And Then Probably In September Got Down To 30.