TIMELINE
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Looking back: "What I remember most about my first day was that someone put stick pins in the bottom of my pants and they got me good."
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Looking back: "I was going so bad that I called Alicia at home one night and asked her to tape the game so I could watch it myself later. That started the video rolling."
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Looking back: "I was ready to go at the start of 1984. I had become a confident player."
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Looking back: "It was a tough year for me. We lost Alan Wiggins. It was the first year I heard criticism. It was the first time I realized how naive I was."
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Looking back: "I gagged. I was leading the batting race and I started looking over my shoulder. I learned a valuable lesson. Take care of your own business."
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Looking back: "I had fun. There were a lot of new faces. The older players I had started with were moving on. And playing for Larry Bowa ... was an experience."
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Looking back: "May and June were two of my worst months ever. It was the first time I experienced that long of a bout with failure."
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Looking back: "I went into the season wanting to get back to where I was in 1987. Although the numbers weren't quite the same, I felt good about the way it ended."
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Looking back: "It was a miserable year. I was happy when I finally broke my finger because I didn't have to deal with it anymore."
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Looking back: "It was a fun year. We could band with anyone. Baseball was fun again. Jack Clark was gone."
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Looking back: "Talking with Ted Williams before the All-Star Game here turned my career around. It changed the way I did things for the next nine years."
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Looking back: "This was the year I put all the information together ... what Ted (Williams) told me, the video, work practices."
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Looking back: "There's no doubt in my mind. If the season had continued, I would have hit .400."
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Looking back: "After the strike, a lot of us were in a funk all year. To be honest, I don't remember as much as I should about the season."
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Looking back: "On the last Saturday of the season, I had the biggest hit of my career outside the World Series. But I was happier about the next day ... "
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Looking back: "Some say, 'Tony, that's your best year.' But it was a miserable year. I thought we'd be a better team."
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Looking back: "The day we made the Kevin Brown trade, I knew we were going to win. If we had won that first game in New York, we'd have won the World Series."
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Looking back: "I really wanted to get my 3,000th hit at home. I needed 13 hits on a homestand and I got seven. For the first time since 1986, I gagged with the bat."
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Looking back: "I sat down with the family in late August. I told them 2001 would be my last year. I also told them I might not finish my career in San Diego."
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Looking back: "The reaction from fans around the league has been unbelievable. It's given me a nice feeling. I never thought about the impact I've had on people."
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