Thiel, Art. "Ellis issued challenge, and M's got their leader" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2003-09-24. Accessed 2011-08-21. Quote: "By the time they returned to their Allendale, N.J., home, he was ready to say no -- perhaps because that was the word that Anita pounded into his ear on the flight. 'No, no, no, no, no,' Piniella recalled her saying. 'She said, 'You're not going to Seattle. Just get that totally out of your mind.' Her reasons were obvious: Too far from home, and spring training was in Arizona instead of Florida."
Thiel, Art. "Ellis issued challenge, and M's got their leader" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2003-09-24. Accessed 2011-08-21. Quote: "By the time they returned to their Allendale, N.J., home, he was ready to say no -- perhaps because that was the word that Anita pounded into his ear on the flight. 'No, no, no, no, no,' Piniella recalled her saying. 'She said, 'You're not going to Seattle. Just get that totally out of your mind.' Her reasons were obvious: Too far from home, and spring training was in Arizona instead of Florida."
