[USML Announce] Baseball memories

Andy Klein anrklein at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 14:12:17 EST 2013


Thanks, Brad.  I tried to be subtle, but if you could spit or drool closer
to, say, Winick next year, I'd appreciate it ...

-Andy

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Brad Jansen <bljansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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