When I received my Randy Johnson 1988 Rookie Expos cap today I had the first opportunity to examine the hat up close.
First off, I love it now that I have it in hand!
While I was inspecting the handwriting and uniform number ink on the underside of the cap I noticed that there was something slipped under the sweatband at the front right behind the bill. I carefully removed what appeared to be two Bazooka Joe comics that were folded in half, which made me smile. At the bottom of each it tells your fortune.
It appears that like many baseball players, The Big Unit is superstitious.
The Bazooka Joe comics that he saved had two really neat fortunes that read:
"A good luck streak is approaching" and the second fortune read:
"There is no end to your good luck".
Both fortunes were definitely keepers apparently...
It appears that I might be the lucky one as the hat was gifted to the seller and his son by a team trainer in the NY Mets series vs. the Expos during 9/16/88- 9/18/88 at Shea Stadium.
As I stated in my earlier post about the hat, Randy Johnson won his ML debut on
9/15/88 at Montreal.
WOW!
