Selling cards to a players family

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Originally Posted by 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.

Grba was a nice guy. I was actually put into contact with him through an eBay seller with whom I had struck up a friendly correspondence. He also put me in touch with the very kind '61 Yankee Johnny James.