My best experience was with Warren Spahn, In the mid 80's he had a table set up at a Triple A game in Portland OR. Autograph tickets were only 4.00$, so I decided to have 3 items signed. The first item he signed was an APBA game card of him self. He asked "what is this" and I explained to him as well I could about how the game worked, He seemed genuinely interested and asked more about it. A lady sitting with him at the table tried to get him to look at the line and on to the next person but he then asked me where the best places to golf were in the Portland area.
I talked with him for about 5 minutes and loved how friendly he was.
Warren Spahn will always be tops in my book with Duke Snider a close second.
Mays gets #1 on my jerk list but that's another story.
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