My brush was with Alec Baldwin (he was with one of Bobby Kennedy's sons) in Northampton MA. He was going to give a talk at Smith College. Really nice guy! Very genuine. Taller than I expected and had a big neck.
Heather At 09:24 PM 10/3/01 -0400, Vince Lavieri wrote: >I am a long-time personal acquaintance of Nancy Faust, world's greatest >baseball organist, who plays for the Chicago White Sox. > >I have the complete official set of 2001 White Sox baseball cards given >to me by Lee Biddle, father of Rocky Biddle, White Sox pitcher (isn't >that a great baseball name, "Rocky Biddle"?). > >Jose deLeon's "lady friend" (not his wife) once almost ran me over >outside Comiskey park as she was driving way too fast to get Jose to >players entrance, for which he was already late. They both looked as if >they had had little sleep. DeLeon did not pitch that night. > >Tommy John asked me for a hymnal in a Methodist Church in 1970. I gave >it to him. He shared it with Sally, then his girlfriend, later (and >still?) his wife. > >Earl Averill III is the grandson of Earl Averill who is the baseball >Hall of Fame with the (hated) Cleveland team, and son of Earl Averill, >Jr., who played for both the minor league north side team in Chicago as >well as the Chicago White Sox. Earl and I had a contest to see which >one of us could push the other into a ditch. (We were both 5 or 6.) I >won. (He hit his head on a pipe and cut it open and everyone got very >angry with me, except Earl, because that was just a thing that happened, >no biggie to us. But did I get in trouble! Earl was my best bud until >his father was traded to the San Francisco Giants in 1961; I never saw >him again, damn it.) > >Glen Hobby pitched for the minor league north side team in Chicago in >the 1960s and I baby sat his son, personally pushing baby Hobby in my >metal car with the plate that fell off a Chicago trolley car. We also >stored the Hobby's groceries in our refrigerator when theirs failed. > >Jim Parque, White Sox pitcher, wanted to sign my hat at Tiger Stadium >(new one) in 2000 but I refused since it was a favorite hat and I would >never be able to wear it again if it became a collectable. I did let >him sign my scorebook and some other papers. Same day I also got >autographs from Paul Kornerko and Mike Sirotka. > >To those who think all my brushes with celebrity involve baseball: > >I am close personal friends with my grandson Gage who is not yet a world >celebrity but will be since he is already the brightest star that shines >in my galaxy. > >(the Rev) Vince
