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In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it.

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.