Even though it feels like you are so far away from the big leagues, my love for the game kept me motivated to get through the hard times in the minors.
I think a lot of people look at athletes in general and think they have everything figured out. They made it to the big leagues... We're battling and going through the same stuff everyone else is going through, but just in a different way. Maybe it can be comforting knowing that we have to battle through some of the same stuff.
Growing up, you think about playing in the big leagues one day. But to this scale, and winning a World Series in your hometown, I don't think you could have planned that.
If democracy is to survive Facebook, that company must realize the outsized role it now plays as both the public forum where our strident democratic drama unfolds and as the vehicle for those who aspire to control that drama's course. Facebook, welcome to the big leagues.
Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.
I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.
I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
I offer a proven track record in the big leagues that can hit left-handers or right-handers.
As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.
