Marlon Anderson

The main thing is you just want to stay out of everybody's way, just don't want to interrupt anything. More read more

The main thing is you just want to stay out of everybody's way, just don't want to interrupt anything. More than anything, you just want to observe.

You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat.

You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat.

Our belief in God and knowing that He controls things, whether good or bad.

Our belief in God and knowing that He controls things, whether good or bad.

Telling me to get the bat, it was like, 'Oh my God,' ... The first thing I remember walking to read more

Telling me to get the bat, it was like, 'Oh my God,' ... The first thing I remember walking to the plate was, 'Man, these lights are good.'

[In so many ways, the Mets had this game at their fingertips. Anderson had a chance to beat the throw read more

[In so many ways, the Mets had this game at their fingertips. Anderson had a chance to beat the throw home because Perez double-clutched, but Dodgers catcher Dioner Navarro blocked the plate with his shin guard and would not let Anderson sneak a hand around him.] I didn't have anywhere to go, ... If you have a collision there, you don't know what you're going to get.