I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.
“Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.”
“We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.”