More of My Memories

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Last week I wrote about some of my memories of getting autographs from guys who are in the Baseball Hall of Fame. This is just my opinion, Pete Rose should be in the hall of fame as well because his career stats are .303 batting average, the all time hits leader with 4,256, 160 home runs,1,314 runs batted in, three World Series rings, World Series MVP 1975, 1973 NL MVP, three time NL batting champion, played in 17 all-star games, won two gold glove awards, silver slugger award winner in 1981, National League rookie of the year in 1963, plus many other honors! I had the pleasure of meeting and getting the autographs of many ballplayers. One day I was at the San Francisco Hilton getting autographs from the Los Angeles Dodgers and an well- dressed older gentleman walked up to me and had a big smile on his face, put his hand on my shoulder and said, "hello son." I looked at him and my eyes widened because I recognized him. It was Jesse Owens who won four Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. I recognized him from his pictures and seeing him promoting his Junior Olympics for kids. He asked me did I know who he was, and I said "yes sir, you are Jesse Owens who won four Gold Medals at the '36 Olympics!" He was impressed because he looked at me and asked me how did I know that, I told him I was a huge fan of his and all kinds of sorts. I also told him I have tried out for his Junior Olympics. He sent his assistant upstairs to get something, I didn't know what is was, and we were talking, he asked me my name, how old I was, how I was doing in school, what did I want to be when I grew up and did I play sports. His assistant came back down and handed Mr. Owens a picture, Jesse signed it and gave it to me. I was shocked! Jesse Owens, who proved to Hitler at the '36 Olympics that Black athletes were just as good as white athletes  by winning four Gold Medals was talking to me and signing an autographed picture to me!. I went home that evening and told my mom and she was very excited about me meeting Jesse Owens and having that picture. She said I am going to put that in a frame for you. I have still have that picture to this day.

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My Memories

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Sorry for not posting in a while but I have been really busy. The season is over and the defending World Champs finished second to the Diamondbacks. Congrats to them the Dbacks had a great season! The Giants did have their chances to overtake them and win the west again but, Arizona played well. I am sitting here watching game five of the 2011 World Series and I was thinking about when I was a kid in San Francisco and getting autographs from the National League teams that would come to town and play the Giants. I remember the first team I got autographs from, it was the 1976 Cincinnati Reds. They were the defending World Champs by beating the Red Sox in my opinion, one of the best World Series games ever! I was excited and nervous because I was a very shy, insecure kid and even seeing major League ballplayers was intimidating. The first player that signed his autograph for me was Tony Perez. He was very nice about it as well. Others who signed were Pete Rose, Johnny Bench,George Foster, Dave Conception, Cesar Geronimo, Ken Griffey,Sparky Anderson, Rawly Eastwick, Will McEnaney who got the save in game 7. Ed Armbrister who was involved in a controversial play in game 3. I asked Ed for his autograph and I asked him did he interfere with Carlton Fisk, he smiled at me and said "no" and grinned and walked away. I was on cloud nine going home because I just met members of the '75 World series Champions Cincinnati Reds and I got every member of the team except Joe Morgan because he lived in Oakland to sign their autographs for me and all of them were very nice to me! ME! a kid from the projects that was located in the second worse neighborhood in San Francisco and they were nice to me!! When I got of the 31 Balboa that stopped right at the corner from the building, I stuck the paper with all of those signatures in my pocket so no one would try to take them. I still have those signatures today! Thanks for Reading!

The Season's Over But....

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I know I have not posted in a while. I am now getting over the season ending the way it did. I wish the Giants could have overcame all the injuries they had but I feel with a healthy team, the right pieces in place, the Giants will be back in the postseason again! I have checked out this cool online shopping site called Become. It is definitely "shopping your way." The website is  http://www.become.com This site has everything you are looking for in automotive, baby items, books, movies and music and much more! If you are looking for sporting goods, Become.com has them! Become has all types of sporting goods for all types of sports. You can save big on the deals at Become. If you play or coach baseball or softball, the Easton sv12 products are for you! Become.com great prices on all Easton sv12 products such as bats and batting gloves. For the basketball players and or coaches, Become.com has a huge line of Nike socks with stripe on back. Become.com has these crew basketball socks at great prices. If you are looking for wrestling shoes, Become.com is the place to go. Become.com has a huge wrestling shoes clearance sale. All name brand shoes at great prices! Whatever you are looking for, Become.com has it!