The Good Lord Has Blessed Me With

Baseball Is A Lot Like Life. It's A Day-to-day Existence, Full Of Ups And Downs. You Make The Most Of Your Opportunities In Baseball As You Do In Life.

A Tall, Thin Old Man Waving A Scorecard From The Corner Of His Dugout. That's Baseball.

So Much Happened (in 1968) It Was Hard To Keep Up With Everything. We Had Denny Mclain's Thirty-one Victories, Gates Brown's Great Pinch-hitting In The Clutch, Tom Matchick's Home Run To Beat Baltimore In The Ninth Inning, Then Daryl Patterson Striking Out The Side To Beat Them In The Ninth. Excitement Every Day In The Ballpark.

If I Walked Back Into The Booth In The Year 2025, I Don't Think It Would Have Changed Much. I Think Baseball Would Be Played And Managed Pretty Much The Same As It Is Today. It's A Great Survivor.

But Most Of All, I'm A Part Of You People Out There Who Have Listened To Me, Because Especially You People In Michigan, You Tiger Fans, You've Given Me So Much Warmth, So Much Affection And So Much Love.