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Originally Posted by dacubfan
Great memories Frank!! Here are mine from that same season 1957 with Pee Wee and the Duke in the bowels of Ebbets Field just a few short weeks before it was shut down. You can't put a price on memories.
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Ed,
Duke is in my book. Pee Wee is not. I remember the game with the Dodgers in 1957 well. They came to Clearwater from Vero Beach and had the best bus. After the game I used to wait at the gate between the dressing room and the bus for my autographs. The Dodgers initially all refused to sign. But before the bus left, I was standing beside the bus looking like the kid in the Mean Joe Greene Coke commercial, when a window of the bus opened. One of da bums asked for the book and pen that I reluctantly surrended it to him. I waited a long time, fearing the bus would pull away with my book. Finally the book came back out the window with about 15 autographs. A shut out was turned into a grand slam in a few very long minutes.
Priceless memories indeed.
Frank