"I think it had a lot to do with maturity," Bumbry said. "I was responsible for the lives of 45 men [in Vietnam], and I only lost one. People ask me all the time how I did it, and I say I don't know. It's amazing how fast you grow up after something like that. When I got back, it was just baseball. It took me only a year and a half to reach the majors. The pressure was off, and I was in a hurry because I thought I had fallen off the Orioles' radar. The way I looked at it, there were pitches I could hit. And if you don't miss the ones you can hit, you'll be OK."