1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,640 This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history. 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:11,840 Hank Bauer, you spent your baseball lifetime at the Yankees and now it's out to Kansas City. How does it feel? 3 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:19,340 Well, I hated like the devil to leave New York Yankees. I've been with them 11 years and it was like home, but 4 00:00:19,340 --> 00:00:23,840 after all these years I am returning to my real home. I've been gone 19 summers. 5 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,340 As everybody knows, Kansas City is my hometown. 6 00:00:27,340 --> 00:00:32,340 Hank, you had a rough winter, a fire I believe. What happened out there at home? 7 00:00:32,340 --> 00:00:38,340 I wish I knew, Cliff, but I was quail hunting this day and I drove up to the house about 6.30 in the evening 8 00:00:38,340 --> 00:00:44,340 and all of a sudden I see my house on fire. Luckily, the wife and the four children got out alright. 9 00:00:44,340 --> 00:00:52,340 Well, that's good news. Hank, let's talk a little about baseball. The New York Yankees, 1960. How do you figure them? 10 00:00:52,340 --> 00:00:59,340 Well, you know when I was playing in New York and winning pennants in the World Series, I always said they had to beat the winner. 11 00:00:59,340 --> 00:01:05,340 And I'll still maintain that fact, they still got to beat Chicago. I think Cleveland will be tough. 12 00:01:05,340 --> 00:01:10,340 I think it will be about a four team race. Chicago, Cleveland, New York, and Detroit. 13 00:01:10,340 --> 00:01:12,340 What happened to Kansas City? 14 00:01:12,340 --> 00:01:20,340 Well, they're coming. I think they're in the building stage. They have been for five years and I think that one of these days 15 00:01:20,340 --> 00:01:25,340 they're going to come up with a good ball club and give a lot of people some trouble, especially in that ballpark. 16 00:01:25,340 --> 00:01:28,340 Hank, did you expect to be traded from the Yankees? 17 00:01:28,340 --> 00:01:35,340 Truthfully, no. I thought some day it would happen, but I didn't think it would happen this fast. 18 00:01:35,340 --> 00:01:45,340 I don't know what happened. I think Maris is a good ball player, but when a ball is done you give four ball players to get one. 19 00:01:45,340 --> 00:01:48,340 I think that's given a lot of material to get one ball player. 20 00:01:48,340 --> 00:01:52,340 What do you think got the better of the deal overall? 21 00:01:52,340 --> 00:02:00,340 Well, I would say on paper Kansas City did, but you don't win ball games on paper. You have to produce out on the ball field. 22 00:02:00,340 --> 00:02:06,340 Hank, as far as producing on the ball field, Stengel says that you're just about the best competitor he's ever seen. 23 00:02:06,340 --> 00:02:12,340 Of course, this is no surprise. When we think of the war and your record as a fighter there, you're always fighting. 24 00:02:12,340 --> 00:02:19,340 Now, how does a guy keep going day after day in baseball? You do get tired, and yet you never seem to show that. 25 00:02:19,340 --> 00:02:24,340 Well, I've always played baseball that way, and that's the only way I can play. 26 00:02:24,340 --> 00:02:32,340 I haven't got some of the finer assets that these other natural ball players have got, so I have to make it up in fighting determination. 27 00:02:32,340 --> 00:02:35,340 Which certainly is a number one natural asset. As always to you, Hank Bauer, good luck. 28 00:02:35,340 --> 00:02:49,340 This is Cliff Evans reporting, now back to monitor at Radio Central.