Julio Franco
Julio Franco
Julio César Franco Robles is a former professional baseball player and coach who is a player-manager for the semi-professional Ishikawa Million Stars of the Baseball Challenge League of Japan as of 2015. He spent most of his playing career in Major League Baseball, entering the major leagues in 1982 and last appearing in 2007, when he was the oldest active MLB player. During that stretch, he also spent two seasons playing professional baseball in Japan and one season playing in...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth23 August 1958
hit home oldest rest run
If you hit one when you're 50, you're still the oldest one to do it, ... It's not like I'm not going to hit another home run for the rest of my career.
best learning stop
He's the best at what he does. The day you stop learning is the day to go home.
signed
Why not? They signed me here for two years.
accept hand happy hit home ourselves owe run wave
We owe ourselves to the fans. Go out there and be embraced. Wave your hand and accept it, because you hit a home run and they're happy for us.
park short
The park is short to right-center field, and that's my power.
attitude future golf interested kids perform players potential strength time
Our strength will be our attitude to perform well every time and get better every day on the golf course. We have new players on the team. We are a young team, but I see potential in the future if the kids keep interested in golf.
couple embrace fans guess odds
Our fans just want to be a part of it. I told him to just go out there and wave, embrace it. You don't want to be at odds with the fans. I guess they have booed him a couple of times, but that's how fans are.
help overcome
Physically, he's going to be OK. Mentally, we will help him overcome anything.
feels good
It feels good to know I am wanted.
bring good job
I think I did a good job for them. I think they should bring me back.
baseball people willing written
You have to do things other people aren't willing to do. There are a lot of things written in baseball that are sometimes wrong.
lose
You'll see, he's going to lose that (record).
hit last
That won't be the last one I hit. I want to hit one in my 50s.
hit home hope last run
That won't be the last home run I hit, and I hope I hit one when I'm 50.