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I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.

I used to collect computer punch cards from the data centers.

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.