I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.
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I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.
I fantasized being a broadcaster.
I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.
As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
It seemed glamorous when I used to go into work and get to be on a trading floor or see how the business worked a little bit before I ever understood what it was.