True Reggie story -
In 1981 after the player strike, the All Star Game was in Cleveland. My aunt got some tickets, and I went with my brother and cousin. We were in the left field bleachers and during batting practice Reggie was out in left catching fly balls.
The Cleveland fans hated the Yankees, and especially Reggie. They were calling him names, yelling at him and Reggie just ignored it.
Then Reggie made a nice running catch on the warning track and all the fans started yelling "Hey Reggie, great catch, throw me the ball Reggie" and things to that effect.
Reggie looked at the fans, smile, nodded, pointed to a fan and pretended to toss him the ball, then shook his head no, smiled and threw it into the infield.
Then the fans really let Reggie have it.
Funniest thing I ever saw at the time as an 18 year old kid from Illinois who had no vested interest in Cleveland's hatred of all things Yankee.
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