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Posted By: Rob Dewolf

Did they let you keep your jerseys back then or did you have to buy them?

As a rule, they really didn't let us keep them. But the folks in the front office knew that 1989 was my last season (I had decided in August to retire at the end of the season), so they let me keep them.

I'll tell you, that year was the first year the Wichita club was owned by the Riches, and the people in the front office did things first class (well, as first class as a Double-A organization can be). In previous seasons (before the Riches bought the team), Wichita hardly ever flew to road games, and in the Texas League that really sucks. But most of the time when we had road trips to El Paso or San Antonio, the club flew us there. Players really appreciated that.