Very cool, Doug! That's a great vintage Don Sutton autograph.
While working as the wine captain and wine buyer at The Ritz restaurant in Newport Center in 1986, I became pretty good friends with Don Sutton while pitching with the Angels. He always was a personal favorite of mine.
I had read that he celebrated each victory with a bottle of vintage cabernet and spoke to him when he visited The Ritz for the 1st time.
I offered to show him our vintage wine cellar, which really interested him.
This led to a tour of our kitchen, etc. Sutton made a point of asking for me every time he came to the resident and I would help him select wines.
Sutton, an OC resident at the time, became a frequent visitor of The Ritz and also became very active in our charitable organization called The Ritz Brothers.
Cool guy, and he recognized me at an autograph signing 10 years later...
|