At the time I thought I was the first black to make All-High in baseball, but I understand that back in the ’30s or ’40s there was one other black who had made All-High in...

Baseball was big in Buffalo. There were many leagues at all of the parks. Any day or any evening, you could find kids out playing baseball.

You had thoughts of it. When I was a kid [before] Jackie Robinson integrated baseball, he played for Montreal, which played against Buffalo, and I would go watch them play. They were one step [away]...

There are the few that make it and a whole lot who don’t make it. I was part of the whole lot that didn’t make it . . ..