Let's see your picture of you and any sports figure

[SyrNy1960]

Thought I would bring this post back to the top to see if any others have pics and stories they would like to share. It was really great to put faces to the names!

Tony (Hey Doug, did you get a haircut yet?)

[oldjudge]

Me and The Mick

[guy3050]

Me and my childhood idol Coco Laboy

[lampertb]

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[Michael B]

All of these were taken at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. All were taken down at Darling Harbour. This was a gathering area near downtown. There were two fireworks shows there every night. Coca Cola radio was set up there (small studios set up for any radio station from around the world to use). This is also where they held boxing, fencing, judo, weightlifting, wrestling and volleyball.

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Evander Holyfield. A friend and I were the only ones who recognized him.

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Matt Biondi - 11 medals in swimming (8 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) 1984-1992. I am six feet tall.

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Bart Conner - gold medal gymnast 1984. Married to Nadia Comaneci. We share a birthday. He is one year older than me.

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Members of the Algerian Boxing Team - Madjhoud Nourendine, Abdel Hani Kenzi and Nacer Keddam.

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Members of the Mongolian team - Tsendayub Ochirbat, Dorjpalan Narmandoleh and Ganaa Galbradakh. The cowboy had I am wearing was used by them in the Opening Ceremony. It sits on top of one of my bookcases.

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Member of the 1956 Australian basketball team. I do not recall his name. I was walking down the street and he passed me. He was wearing the lapel pin that the IOC gives every Olympic competitor. It is a gold torch with the Olympic rings and the year of competition. I followed him into his bank.

[Howe’s Hunter]

pitched by then Memphis Redbird Adam Wainwright at a game versus the Omaha Royals at Rosenblatt Stadium in 2005. Royals catcher Scott Walters was the batter. I’ve held on to it since then, hoping someday to get Adam’s signature on the ball. Finally happened at an event benefiting his Big League Impact foundation. I’m one happy Cardinals fan.

[Howe’s Hunter]

At the time, I posted it on Facebook saying it was a photo of a couple future Hall of Famers. John got the call the next year. I’m still waiting.

[dacubfan]

With Larry Fitzgerald a few weeks ago during Super Bowl week in Arizona.

[raulus]

Me and Steve at the airport in SLC. You can tell it’s him because of the distance between his eyes and the shape and position of his ears.

We were on the same flight from SFO to SLC. August 1998. This was back when planes weren’t always full - trust me, it used to happen once upon a time.

Some little kid took my assigned seat, so I took the row behind. Just before they were about to close the doors, Steve slipped in and sat down next to me.

We spent the next couple of hours chatting about the upcoming season (he didn’t seem to think they were going to be that dominant), my “run and gun” poster of him that I had hanging up in my childhood bedroom, whether he had a hot date that night (he didn’t), and my experience being a missionary in Taiwan - I had just returned home about 5 months before. Then he signed a barf bag for my little brother, who suffers from the world’s most sensitive case of motion sickness, and signed my ticket sleeve for me.

We walked through the SLC airport together, and I flagged down a fellow fan who took this picture of us together on the escalator. The photographer was standing on the lower part of the escalator looking up at us, while we were facing backwards riding up the escalator, which is why the photo has such a great upward angle.

[yanks4]

Goalie

[mrreality68]

Several years ago at the HOF induction ceremony for 2014 class with Joe Torre, Greg Maddux and others

Daryl Strawberry looked like he could still play

[ocjack]

Mickey and the Duke:

[Mark17]

Chuck & me.