Baseball dinner party

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Originally Posted by orioles70

Ty Cobb

Leo Durocher

Satchell Paige

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I had an answer but I don't think I could top this one.



I actually had an experience similar to to this fantasy baseball dinner party. A friend and I used our college newspaper press credentials to attend the Winter Meetings in Houston in December of 1973. We blew off classes and spent the entire weeks hanging out at the hotel.

We spent the evenings in the press room and listening to the baseball personalities chatting it up with the real writers. One night Sparky Anderson came in and spent a few hors drinking coffee and telling stories. I remember asking him about an injury to Davey Concepcion that had cut his season short. Sparky had to know I was an interloper in that room but he answered me as if I was with the Sporting News.

The highlight was a luncheon at which I had nabbed a seat at Earl Weaver's table. I brought up an Oriole-Yankee game from 1970 that had been the best regular season game I had ever seen. Earl picked up the game story from me and went on and on about that game. Amazing day indeed.

Sorry for diverting from the original topic. I'm enjoying the responses.