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An interview with the newly unveiled Harold Baines statue
An interview with the newly unveiled Harold Baines statue
Without some of the theatrical foreign policy, Harold Baines played baseball like Theodore Roosevelt — he walked softly and carried a big stick . Unlike Teddy , he also spoke — and still speaks — softly. So softly and infrequently, in fact, that it took dedicating a bronze Baines statue at U.S. Cellular Field on Sunday for Harold to speak his first audible words since ...
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