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Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.

My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.

It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It's when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

I did the 1972 Sapporo Games, and I was also the Reds announcer and was folded into the NBC coverage for the 1972 World Series. I also did the 1979 World Series for ABC.

Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.