His fastball was, and still is, believed to be one of the fastest ever in history and his career records prove it. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town. Changes have been profound and lasting. Others have been cosmetic, but today the under forty fans wouldn't know baseball without them. Exploding scoreboards, names on your back, numbers on your front, gloves when you're at bat as well as in the field, and baseball not just under the lights, but under the roof too, on artificial grass.
Every day is a new opportunity.
You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment. The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.