I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.
And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.
The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.
In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.
Baseball's my life.
When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame.
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