Bo Jackson

“The first time I heard the sound ... I was just a boy, and I was in Florida and I was standing outside the fence, and I heard it, and it was a sound I’d never heard before in my life. That was Babe Ruth hitting the ball. The next time I heard that sound, I was in Washington, D.C., I rushed out to see who it was, and that was Josh Gibson hitting the ball.

”Now, I didn’t hear it again for another 50 years. But then, I’m in Kansas City, and I heard the sound one more time, that sound I’d heard only twice in my life. You know who this is? It was Bo Jackson hitting the ball! It was a thrill for me. I said, ‘Here is that sound again!”

— Buck O’Neil