Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.
I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
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.
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.