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Listen to insightful interviews with 13 legendary baseball players as master interviewer Ann Liguori, an award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting, discusses achievement and life with baseball heroes. Ann asks baseball heroes about their careers, explores historic stats, finds out what motivates them, digs into the juicy controversies, their screw-ups and a host of other insightful issues that surround each of these record-setting baseball players.

Whitey Ford pitched his entire 18-year career with the New York Yankees, and he was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1974. Ann Liguori caught up with the legend at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York City. In this rare interview, Ford speaks candidly about coming up from the minor leagues mid-season in 1950 - playing among legends like Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra and Joe DiMaggio in the middle of a 5-year championship streak for the Yankees.