[USML Announce] Baseball memories

[Brad Jansen]

Andy, I did not realize until know how you felt about people expectorating
near your lower extremities. I will try to be sensitive about that at the
draft.

--Brad

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Andy Klein <anrklein at gmail.com> wrote:

> My first baseball game was at Wrigley with a Deerfield Youth Baseball
> Association outing -- I think it was 1970.  Don Kessinger was my favorite
> player.  He lived in Northbrook (not far from the current Blocker abode) on
> the same street as some close family friends.  So I got a cool autographed
> photo of #11 back in the day.  I also was a big Fergie Jenkins fan.  I
> think I shared my story of meeting him in Cooperstown a few years ago.
>
> Jim ... I saw Kingman on the street once walking to Taste of Chicago when
> it was held at Navy Pier.  I tried to say hello.  He never looked up and,
> instead, spit about two inches from my foot.  Needless to say, I wasn't
> much of a King Kong fan after that.
>
> -Andy
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Jim Barrett <chicagojab at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Between the HoF voting and Brad's Pete Rose story got me thinking of
>> baseball past. Any of you want to share your favorite player growing up and
>> first game attended?
>>
>> For me, my first game was at Wrigley in '76 when I was 5 years old. I saw
>> the Cubs lose to the Dodgers.
>>
>> My favorite player as a kid was Dave Kingman. I'll always remember his 48
>> HRs in 1979.  By '84 I transitioned to Ryne Sandberg but I still followed
>> also Kingman into his DH years in Oakland.
>>
>>
>> Jim
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