My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

He has a gift for putting the barrel of the bat on the ball and he has a passion for doing it. You look at him starting his third year in the big leagues and you can sense the maturity he's found over the last two years. He's a lot calmer and he's playing a lot more in the strike zone.

"Can you love your children and grandchildren equally, yet still have a favorite? The answer lies in the hourglass of time for each of us." ~Tom Baker