We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

