41.   He spent the following season with the Denver Broncos before returning to the Giants.

42.   He was elevated the next year to running backs and special-teams assistant and was made running backs coach the following season.

43.   He joined the Dodgers again the following season when the team went on to win the World Championship.

44.   He was traded the following season to the Texas Rangers for pitchers Kerry Lacy and Mark Brandenburg, neither one of whom is still in the big leagues.

45.   He was traded to the New York Giants before the following season for demanding too much money.

46.   He signed with the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent, failed to survive training camp, then hooked on with the Browns the following season.

47.   He worked out constantly, always thinking ahead to the following season.

48.   He split time between Boston and Pawtucket the following season.

49.   He was released during the training camp of the following season and wound up playing for Yakima of the Continental Basketball Association.

50.   He was there at Yankee Stadium the following season when Babe Ruth, his lungs wracked with cancer, made his haunting farewell speech.