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Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

When I grew up, baseball was the No. 1 sport.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

I miss baseball.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.