I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.
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.
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.
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
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.
I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
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.
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