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As Much As We Disliked The Yankees, Fans And Players Alike, They Were Good For Baseball. 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.

Where The Ball Went Was Up To Heaven. Sometimes I Threw The Ball Clean Up Into The Stands.

I Spent 34 Months On The Battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I Was A Gun Captain. First We Went To Russia For About 11 Months With The British Convoys. Then We Were Up In Norway And Scandinavia.

I Needed To Join The Navy. If You Ask The People In Europe Who Won World War Ii, They Don't Say The Allies, They Say The United States Won The War And Saved The World.

I Don't Think Baseball Owes Colored People Anything. I Don't Think Colored People Owe Baseball Anything, Either.