Bob Watson, the first black general manager in baseball to win a World Series title, with the Yankees in 1996, says he has turned down offers for kidney donations from his two children and is "ready for whatever happens now."
Watson, 71, who has kidney disease and undergoes dialysis several times a week, told the New York Daily News that he's "gotten to the point where every day I'm still here is a blessing."
"Both my kids offered to donate kidneys to me," Watson said, "and I told them both the same thing: 'I've had a good life and I don't want to take a kidney from young people who really need them and still have their whole lives ahead of them.