“The Olympics are something special to me,” he said that day in San Diego. “I’ve done everything in the game of baseball. I started from the bottom as a player and I reached the major leagues as a player. I started at the bottom as a manager and I reached the major leagues as a manager. And then I was fortunate enough to be inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame. This is even greater. This is the utmost right here. This is a tremendous chapter in my life. There ain’t nobody that’s going to take it any more serious than me.”
