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Here are a couple of interesting BB player stories at the Willow Grove show.
Featured guest at Willow Grove (circa 1990) was Gus Zernial. I gave Gus his famous 1952 Topps card to sign. Gus asked me....... " Do you really want me to sign this card, isn't it quite valuable ? " I told him that I had 4 more of these cards back home. He smiled and autographed it. What impressed me about Gus was....at 67 years old, Gus looked like he could go to the ballpark and hit many more HR's. ![]() Bill Hedin, you'll appreciate this story...... Jimmy Piersall was the guest at Willow Grove in the early 1990's. I was in line to meet him and get his autograph. The guy (dealer) in front of me presented Jimmy an egg-crate type of box containing 24 balls for Jimmy to sign. Jimmy looks up at him, and asked.... "do I have to sign all of these ?" The dealer responded...."Why yes, I paid for all of them." Obviously, Jimmy was not that happy about this. Piersall signs the first ball, and reaches over the table and places it in one of the slots in this 24-slot grid. Then Jim signs the 2nd ball and tosses it into this crate...."swish"....it lands in a slot. Jim appeared quite pleased with himself. So, as he signed the remaining 22 balls, Jim would toss them into the crate. All the rest of the balls bounced off the crate, and were rolling all over the floor. Needless to say, the dealer was very "ticked-off".....while Jimmy was laughing. TED Z Last edited by tedzan; 12-14-2010 at 09:01 AM. |
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