"the tim mccarver show" you can went to the winter meetings, broadcast job while jean, the rafter, went to the winter meetings trying to sell the broadcasting rights and ended up buying the club. >> that's right. that was the whole thing. expansion. and of course, i met him all the time playing golf. in burbank. and he was a real baseball fan. and there so many great stories about him. "the tim mccarver show" before we start your mets career back in 1962 where you work for 16 years, let's rewind your life, if we could. two before the war. growing up in santa rita. >> new mexico. as a matter of fact. and my father died when i was four, and my mother was a nurse in world war i. in france. and she met my father in the hospital where she was working, and they got married and then i was born. >>tim: sounds like hemingway story. your mom during your father in the hospital. >> when he died, my mother moved to me, i was the only son, out to alhambra, california. i had neighbors that were involved with baseball. these selected chappie did i got tired of that, i said i want to hit. and they said,

the tim mccarver show is brought to you by: >> tim: all of you may remember wade boggs at superstitions. how did you get into that and do any superstitions now invade your life, if invade is the right word. >> i can honestly say that my life is a lot simpler now than it used to be. the course of the day is not only time-consuming, but this usually not enough hours in the day to get through them all. coincidentally, i'm the only person in the hall of fame that on their plaque says the most superstitious baseball player. >> tim: really. how did it start? >> i think it started like every little bigger work you had a good game, you were your same t-shirt and you what your same socks or something like this. and it started evolving when i would have a good game. i would sort of do the same things that would be like groundhog day every day. i would say, wow, i had three hits yesterday some to do the same thing the next game. that i would get to or three hits i would do the same thing the next time. and wednesday on the years that i was winning the batting titles and doing things like this, it

l invas gn therutdeth an' iout twt rswiamherngok, >> announcer: "the tim mccarver show" is brought to you by geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. call 1-800-947-auto >> tim: back in 1965, december of 1965 to be exact, bring robinson was traded from the cincinnati reds to the baltimore orioles for milt pappas, the pitcher, and everybody in the national league was saying, what? frank robinson for milt pappas, regardless -- we've never seen milt pappas pitch. how did that trait affect you? starting to believe i could spend my entire season -- i mean, career, sorry, with the cincinnati reds and was hoping i could, then the trade came and i was crushed. it took me three or four days to kind of realized that i was going to a good ball club, if i went over there and have the type of year that i was capable of having and the other guys the years that they had and had had that we had a good chance to win. >> tim: did you ever have a good year for, 49 home runs, led the triple crown, yastrzemski won it the next year. >> i just did what i felt like i was capable of doin