I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.
You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.
Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
