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Old 05-09-2018, 03:48 PM
sicollector1954 sicollector1954 is offline
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NICE STORY! I had it happened once in 1998 with Ripken at White Sox park and a 44-48 Gehrig game bat. Made a huge sign...."Cal--will you sign my Lou Gehrig bat"? Had to talk with 3 security people to assure them I was not going to beat someone over the head with the bat first...finally got in...Held up my sign every time he looked over...as he was walking off the field----I yelled...hey Rip...will you sign my bat? He motioned to the usher standing up on the dugout roof for me to hand it to him...usher passed it down.....he looked it over...took a couple of cuts...sat down on the dugout steps...signed it...handed it back to the usher and disappeared....that was the only thing I saw him sign that night with 16,000 people at that game...I was thrilled...

A couple of years later I was at the Sun Times show and paid to have him sign an S.I. with his dad and brother on it....I thanked him for signing the bat and had a couple of pics with me....he still remember that evening! Class Act...

Congrats.
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