In 1992 spring training, I brought a 1977 Cubs home game used jersey of Ray Burris to Port Charlotte, FL during Rangers spring training (Burris was assistant pitching coach). Burris saw it and lit up, saying that the Cubs were the only MLB team of the many he played with that never let him keep a jersey (pretty normal for when Yosh Kowano was equipment manager and the Wrigleys owned the team)

Unfortunately, he lowballed me with a trade offer of 2 signed Nolan Ryan baseballs. I politely declined, although I saw him a number of times in the 1990s and early 2000s at the Rick Wilkins Foundation Dinner.

Dave Miedema