It's the perfect cap to 40 years in baseball. It's what we're in the game for, and when people come up to you and say, 'Thanks for pitching all that batting practice,' and, 'Thanks for your experience and expertise,' that means a lot to me.

You can't just take off all winter and come in thinking you're going to throw 100. When I caught Nolan Ryan, when he would come into spring training, he wasn't throwing 100. And that's when he was a legitimate 100. He'd start off 95 to 96, but by the end of spring there it is. Bobby is not far off.

The baseball people know who he is. He's been good for a while. He's somebody the other coaches in the district know about. He's already making a legacy for himself.

Baseball realizes it's not the only game in town. You have to do these kinds of things to introduce people to baseball.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Like I always tell people, I'm a baseball player, it's what I do,