[Mark17]

I've been working with John Miley, selling his complete game audio CDs for the past 20+ years and have sold several to players and their families. Eli Grba bought the first game in Angels history (4/11/1961) that he pitched and won, and then he called me and we talked about it. I asked him about Bo Belinsky but the guy he wanted to talk about was his good friend Dean Chance. He said if I ever wanted to get any of my Met Stadium seats signed by Dean (who was a 20 game winner with the Twins in 1967) I could go through him, since Dean wasn't always easy to reach for such requests. Sadly, Dean passed away before we could arrange it.

I sold the complete 1968 World Series runs to both Don Wert's family and also Sharon McLain. Nelson Briles' family bought some games he pitched in, and I included a picture of a note Nelson wrote to me when I was in high school asking for autographs/pitching advice. His wife (or daughter, can't remember) wrote back and said it brought back memories, seeing his handwriting again.

Steve Blass' family bought about 8 copies of the 7th game of the 1971 World Series, to distribute among family members one Christmas. I've gotten orders every once in awhile through the years from Dave McNally's son, for games Dave pitched, and Ray Culp bought a couple games he pitched. There have been some others, but there generally isn't much of a story to go along with them.

I've sold game used bats to Glenn Borgman's son, Steve Hovley's son, and Harmon Killebrew's daughter. In those cases, I let them go pretty cheaply because the bats meant so much more to them than they would to anyone else. But again, no interesting stories to tell.