1. And, yes, Joe liked his privacy, but he liked to talk baseball, especially with other players. 2. As for the event, it is great to have thousands of people in our city, talking baseball. 3. Baseball was talked about for four hours over food and drink. 4. Before the game, Piniella and fellow manager Art Howe of Oakland were talking baseball near the cage during batting practice. 5. After wolfing down a cheese burger, Bush worked the crowd, shaking hands and talking baseball with restaurant patrons. 6. But most of all, Mantle wanted to talk baseball. 7. Decked out in their team jerseys, the two major-leaguers talk baseball to a hundred or so youth players who are crowded into the third-base dugout. 8. Even now, he thinks he was only talking baseball. 9. Every barber, cab driver, and bartender in the city wanted to talk baseball back then. 10. Golf by day, talking baseball all night. |