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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The Sears Roebuck Man.


22 posted on 01/19/2023 4:11:38 AM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count !)
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To: Recompennation

My dad and my uncle and us kids went to a Senators game at RFK and my uncle who was a World War II Pacific Marine had thus Corp windbreaker jacket on and the box that we were in was right over the dugout.

Ted Williams saw that and during one of the breaks in the game they had like a 10-minute conversation. Two old Marines shooting the breeze.


23 posted on 01/19/2023 4:24:12 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Recompennation

My next door neighbor at the time shook his hand at the 1999 All-Star game. The neighbor was a former Marine reserve finance officer. When he moved from Rhode Island to Massachusetts there was no Marine finance billet within 50 miles so they let him transfer into the Army reserve. He looked like a Marine out of central casting, so when the All-Star game was scheduled for Fenway, and Teddy Ballgame was going to be honored, they wanted a Marine Color Guard. The next door neighbor fit the bill, so the Marines allowed him to wear a Marine uniform for the detail. (He may have been temporarily transferred back into the Corps.) In any event after a lot of drill and preparation his detail was ready for the game. Teddy Ballgame asked to shake his hand, and he readily obliged. We watched it live on National TV.


32 posted on 01/19/2023 5:37:09 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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