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If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.
I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.
At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.
In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble.
Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.
If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen.
I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.
There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years.
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.
In baseball, there's always the next day.
The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform.
There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?
My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.
I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.
My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.
I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.
The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.
I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.
I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special.
I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.
Baseball wasn't easy for me.