[Kalineman]

Another Hall of Famer who was great was the late Harmon Killebrew. He was making an appearance at a celebrity golf tournament at our Jack Nicklaus course here in Traverse City. After I got done with our interview, we were just chatting about some of the old, great stadiums he played in. Out of the blue, he said, "You know, the hardest ball I ever hit was in the old White Sox park." I asked him if he meant the longest ball he had ever hit. "No," he replied. "I mean the hardest I've ever hit a baseball. I can't remember who was pitching - it might have been Gary Peters - and I hit a ball on a rope that just cleared the fence in left field, hit one of those old steel girders, and bounced almost all the way back to shortstop. It landed in shallow leftfield. Aparicio went out and retrieved it as I was rounding the bases. He laughed and told me I could have killed someone... and he was right."