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12-22-2024, 06:17 AM
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My son-in-law grew up an Oakland A's fan during Rickey's prime. As a kid he had a poster in his bedroom of the iconic photograph of Rickey holding third base over his head immediately after breaking the record and just before the "I am the greatest" speech. His mother had taken the poster to a show and gotten Rickey to sign it. As you might expect, the poster disappeared between high school and marriage.
Several years ago, I commissioned a mosaic of the poster made from baseball cards and gave it to him. It strikes me as the way that Rickey would like to be remembered: 
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