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I'm in the major league now.

There have been so many great players that I've played with, that I've played against over the years.

I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

There were a lot of players who worked just as hard as I did, and if you didn't, you didn't stay in the big leagues.

I've been around some really good guys from different teams.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.