:12:00
I knew they'd send me back down.
:12:03
I couldn't bear the thought
of another year in the minors.
:12:06
So I decided to hang them up.
:12:12
-Go on. Sit down.
-Thank you.
:12:17
So what was that like?
:12:21
It was like coming this close
to your dreams...
:12:24
...and then watching them brush past you,
like a stranger in a crowd.
:12:28
At the time, you don't think much of it.
:12:30
We don't recognize our most significant
moments while they're happening.
:12:34
Back then I thought,
"Well, there'll be other days."
:12:38
I didn't realize that was the only day.
:12:43
And now, I want to ask you a question.
:12:47
What's so interesting about half an inning
that would make you come from lowa...
:12:52
...to talk to me about it
50 years after it happened.
:12:56
I didn't really know till just now...
:13:00
...but I think it's to ask you,
if you could do anything you wanted...
:13:04
...if you could have a wish....
:13:10
And you're the kind of man
who could grant me that wish?
:13:15
I don't know. I'm just asking.
:13:19
You know,
I never got to bat in the major leagues.
:13:24
I'd have liked to have had that chance,
just once...
:13:27
...to stare down a big-league pitcher.
:13:29
Stare him down,
then just as he goes into his windup, wink.
:13:34
Make him think you know
something he doesn't.
:13:37
That's what I wish for.
:13:38
The chance to squint at a sky so blue
that it hurts your eyes to look at it.
:13:43
To feel the tingle in your arms
as you connect with the ball.
:13:46
To run the bases,
stretch a double into a triple...
:13:48
...and flop face first into third.
:13:51
Wrap your arms around the bag.
:13:54
That's my wish.
:13:59
Is there enough magic out there
in the moonlight...