After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.
“I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.”
“I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.”