Re: Best Item an Athlete has Given You or You Have Given an Athlete (No $$$)
Best item ever given by an Athlete...
I think the year was 1989... I could be mistaken, but I was at an Orioles game with my father, and he knew a bunch of the cops working the game... I asked one of the uniforms if they could get me a ball signed by my favorite Oriole, Mickey Tettleton... so the game goes on, and nothing from the cop... the game ends and my dad and I are about to leave and I hear someone say my name... I turn around and it is Tettleton... he calls me over shakes my hand, spends about 10 minutes talking to me and gives me his bat... my very first gamer... and I still have it!
Best item I ever gave an athlete...
(I posted this in another thread, but I revived it here too)
He isnt an athlete, or at least not any More but...
I bought some old bats back at the begining of the summer... all were old international players that played in Baltimore before there was a major league team... like my 1936 Woodley Abernathy (international league HR champ).
Well... one of the bats I bought was of Lee Riley... who among many other teams played briefly in Baltimore in 1939.
I was going through my collection and decided to sell some bats and decided that I wasnt that attached to the Riley bat and was going to see if I could get the $100 I payed out of this sidewritten old bat.
In preparing to sell the bat I found out that the only Lee Riley at the time ended up being the father of Coach Pat Riley. I sent a note to the only email address I could find for the Miami heat and wanted to know if Coach Riley would like his father's bat. I got a nice response from their marketing guys and he told me that Coach Riley was very excited to get it.
I sent it off... and a week or two later I got a copy of Pat Riley's Hall of Fame book... autographed to me... and a long hand written letter from the Coach thanking me for my gift. He was very excited to have a bat that his dad "had his own hands around".
The letter is over the top nice... I am not an NBA fan... but Pat Riley is a stand up guy...
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Re: Best Item an Athlete has Given You or You Have Given an Athlete (No $$$)
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Best Item an Athlete has Given You or You Have Given an Athlete (No $$$)
This was part of what I originally posted in the "Class Act" thread. I wanted to start a new thread for the best item an athlete has given you or you have given to an athlete with no money changing hands.
Last night vs. the Giants I followed thru on a promise to a fellow Forum member JasonHalliburton that if he drove the 8 hours from Knoxville Tenn to DC, I would take him to the game and see Bonds (well there was no Bonds sighting). We got into the stadium prior to batting practice. Brian Schneider came over to talk to us. When I say "talk", I mean talk. He and Jason had the State of Tennessee in common as a lot of Brian's family lives there. After the Nats first season in 2005, I purchased all of Brian's catchers gear. I told him I would be interested in purchasing any gear this year too and he said he has been donating it to needy kids in the Dominican Republic (classy guy). After BP, Brian brings me his "away" catchers gear autographed and a bunch of sweat bands. Check out what game the chest protector was used in:
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Andrew
I have been given baseballs, some bats, caps and some other stuff, but for Brian Schneider to give me this item was over the top. I didn't even ask for it.
It kind of reminds me of the old Coca Cola commercial when Mean Joe Greene throws the kid his jersey. Sure, Gilbert Arenas throws his jersey to the crowd after every Wizards game but that is kind of part of his post-game ritual.
Here is a picture of me with the chest protector:
Here is a better pic of Brian Schneider. I hope to photomatch much better than from this pic:
Here is Brian Schneider with Jason Halliburton:
I will Post later the best item(s) I have given an athlete.
Andrew
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