My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.
I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.