People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
Baseball regards us as sheep.
I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
