Manager Profile: Bobby Jones

Television: "I don't really have any favorite TV shows. I like watching the Discovery Channel and stuff like that. I don't really sit down and watch regular TV series. I do like watching "Amazing Race' on Sundays, but other than that, I'm not really much on watching. I'm a channel surfer."

Books: "In spring training I probably read two or three books a month. During the season, not that many, because there's too much stuff going on and I don't have time to read. When I do, I read James Patterson, David Baldacci, Tom Clancy, Nelson DeMille."

Music: "I listen to oldies most of the time, and I like country music. But most of the time it's oldies. I just turn the radio station on that plays golden oldies, Sixties, Seventies, light rock. I used to buy cassettes all the time, but I can't tell you the last time I bought a CD. I've got an I-pod and I've got everything on it from country to Neil Diamond to Linda Rondstadt to Willie Nelson, and I liked Beatles songs."

Movies: "My favorite movies have been 'Sand Pebbles' with Steve McQueen, 'Camelot' and 'Bull Durham' and "Godfather,' stuff like that. My favorite actors are Robert Duvall - I loved him in 'Lonesome Dove' - and Clint Eastwood. Actresses, when I was younger I liked Natalie Wood. Now, I really don't have one."

Pro or college football: "I prefer pro. I'm not much into college football. I'll watch bowl games, but that's about it. I won't watch college games, but I will sit down and watch a pro game. I was a Denver Broncos fan for a long time, when John Elway was playing. Now, I might watch on Monday night, but on Sundays I'm out in the yard. I don't even turn the television on. I'm not a big football fan like I used to be."

Pro or college basketball: "Neither one. I don't care for either one of them. I loved playing basketball in high school, but now I don't even watch it except for the NCAA Tournament and the NBA playoffs. I can't tell you the last time I actually sat down and watched a basketball game on television."

Your job if you hadn't been in baseball: "I would have been in the military. I'd have stayed in the Army after I got drafted if I hadn't been playing ball. In my hometown (Elkton, Md.), a mobile home factory was all they had there, and that's where everybody worked. All my cousins and brothers worked there, and I didn't want to do that, so I probably would have just stayed in the service."

Hobbies: "I like to play golf and I love to do yard work. I go out in the back yard and start walking around pulling weeds. That's really relaxing. I just get my mind off of everything, you know? When I retire, my yard (in Tulsa) will look like (RedHawks groundskeeper) Monte McCoy's baseball field out here. When I hang it up, I'll invite you over so you can see what it looks like."

Vacations: "Debbie and I like going to the Sandals resort in the Bahamas. We've been there a couple of times and we've been to the Sandals resort in Jamaica. We went to Cancun. About every two years we try to vacation somewhere in the winter where we just go lay by the beach or by the pool and kick back and don't do anything, just read. Last year we went to the Bahamas and I think this fall we're going to Yellowstone."

Astronomy: "I'm a big star gazer. I've got a telescope and I like to look at the planets. We used to take it out here after the games were over. I've got a planetarium disc I put on my computer that tells me what's out there and what time. It's pretty cool."