Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.