[Vision2020] I finally made it to Cooperstown!

[Carl Westberg]

That is cooler than the other side of the pillow.  Did Rickey speak in third person in his speech?  Carl

From: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:33:26 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] I finally made it to Cooperstown!








Incredibly cool.  I wish I could have been there to cheer for Rickey; and hey, you left off his second stint at Oakland.  That's when I got to see him, having missed him the first time around.

Sunil

From: scooterd408 at hotmail.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:33:31 -0600
Subject: [Vision2020] I finally made it to Cooperstown!








Hi all,

Idaho State Representative Erik Simpson (R-Idaho Falls) very generously - and surprisingly for once without any quid pro quo - gave me one ticket to sit in the very front row at the 2009 Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony yesterday in Cooperstown, NY, where his late grandfather - Yankees 2nd baseman Joe Gordon - was being inducted into the Hall along with Boston Red Sox Great Jim Rice and Oakland Athletic / Yankee / Blue Jay / Padre / Angel / Met / Mariner / Red Sox / Dodger Great Rickey Henderson.  Back in my college days when Erik first told me that his grandfather was an MVP in the Big Leagues (1942 when he was elected MVP over Ted Williams who had a Triple Crown season), my off-the-cuff response was something to the effect of 'Maybe your grandfather played in the major leagues, but there was no way he was an MVP'.  In my defense, Erik had a nasty habit back then of routinely stretching the truth - if not flat out completely fabricating grandiose stories - and these were the days before all the world's knowledge was quickly available Googling and Wiki'ing at my fingertips.

I'm heading off to Seattle tomorrow and I'll be at the Mariners / Jays game Wednesday afternoon - although with no connections this time - I'm sitting all the way back in row 32 behind the plate.  I hope the Jays trade their ace and probable starter Roy Halladay prior to that game, otherwise there are likely to be a lot of silent M's bats.

-Scott


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