Hey what's up everybody?
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!
