Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to s….

You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play th….

It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican Leagu….

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived..

I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't….

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words..

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job o….

My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there ….

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing….

I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wi….

Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to d….

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the priv….

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson..