Richard Justice

They wear a top and a sweatshirt.

Bobby would never do that, and he never wanted the sunglasses over the A on the Atlanta Braves hat, things like that.

He just was a powerful, powerful person a couple years ago.

more than a couple of years ago.

It's the first day in spring training.

I'm with spring training with the Braves.

It's the day the pitchers throw batting practice.

Tony, if you want to understand, and you've been down there close to the field,

what it's like to watch major league pitchers show batting practice.

It is an amazing thing.

And in walks one by one to throw around a batting practice, Tommy Glavin, Greg Maddox, John Smoltz, and then a non-roster player that was beloved at the time, Steve Avery, who had been with the organization.

And Bobby just strolls over, looks at me and goes,

And that's how you win games.

In other words, deflecting, the post-game interviews with Bobby were not good because he deflected credit to the players all the time.

And when things were going badly, he would just accept the blame and go about his business.

He was a part of that old school.

He was with the

He was with the Yankees in the minor leagues.

His roommate, Scott McGregor, became a great lefty pitcher for the Orioles.

And Scotty said that Bobby's the one that told him, hey, look, you keep trying to throw the ball harder and harder.