My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.
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.
My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.
I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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