[JimStinson]

Great photo...! Thanks for posting that Lance.

Tom, Thanks a million for your post. I never knew that Bill lost a son in an accident, I seem to remember his having a teenage son in the 1980's when he was in New Port Richey and I think a daughter

Your story about Clement vs Quinn was funny because another collector who now lives in the north west used to tell me ...Don't even TRY to get the better of Bill in a deal, he'll always win (smile), I remember one time he "got" me, I had started buying collections at shows and was always scrambling for Dodgers stuff to trade him because he was a veteran and I was new. And I had a beautiful signed photo of Hugh Casey, of all the stuff I brought it was the only thing he was interested in and I kinda scratched my chin and said $10.00 ??? Casey never threw a fastball quicker than that photo ended up in Bill's "Trade" stack.

Another story that came to mind was his telling me about getting a phone call one day in the 1960's and a gentleman who knew nothing about autographs was about to buy a large collection of signed baseballs and could he pay Bill for the day to look the baseballs over and make sure he was getting a good deal and they were legit. Bill agreed and a limo showed up at his house the next day and he and the man went to look at the collection. After looking it over Bill told him he thought it was a good deal but not nearly as good as his signed baseball collection, only his wasn;t for sale the guy wanted to look anyway and to make a long story short, The guy who's name was Ewing Kauffman bought both ball collections.