I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could hit it deep as easily as he could pull it. He was a defensive genius and had speed and skill on the basepaths as well as in the outfield.
Baseball is a game, yes.
It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson. It's not hard.