It's a snapshot of how we did growing apples. If they would taste our apples I know I'd do better. My grandfather always grew better-tasting fruit on this shale soil.

I enjoy beating myself from the previous year. It's a hobby. You have to enjoy it. You've got to have a passion in life. Growing fruit, growing good fruit, is my passion. I'm not saying I'm successful at it, but ...

Growing farm show apples starts now with pruning the trees. In fact, it goes back to selecting the varieties to plant. You don't just go out and pick them.

I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

A LITTLE TASTE.