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Bob CI’ve played golf with Roger Craig, the Brooklyn pitcher not the 49er football player. He’s a member at a club I do some consulting for. He found both my name similarity (The Craik’s are the Scottish clan) and my interest in pre war baseball both interesting and amusing at the same time. He is 76, in fantastic shape and a 4 handicapper, a pretty good golfer. I have not seen him this (golf) season. Last year he was helping out the Tigers pitching staff work on their split finger fastballs. He is a great story teller. Told me several years ago, the DBacks asked him to come over and give Randy Johnson some pointers on his split finger fastball during spring training. He said “Well Randy wasn’t really interested in that, so I started teaching the younger players with some noticeable improvement. Finally, one day Randy came over and said, Rodger can you work with me a little?” Rodger paused and with a wry smile said he responded “Randy, I will be glad to help you with your fast ball but I ain’t gonna’ kiss your ass.” That is my story about Roger.