“He was not a braggart. You ’bout had to ask him about his life in baseball. I remember all of us kids sitting on the couch one day, watching TV, when the phone rang. It was the Orioles, asking if he would be their pitching coach. Daddy put his hand over the phone, turned to us and said, ‘Do you all want me to take this job up in Baltimore?’ We said, ‘No, sir!’ So he told them, ‘Not interested,’ and hung up.”