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Can't find the spot where we were mentioning our favorites. This one was probably on there but I love sandlot. where the little boy gets dad favorite ball for team to play with. He figured it wasn't much as it was signed by some girl named Ruth... Boy look at all my chatter as you can see nothing on TV tonight, need to get a life I guess.

I think just about everyone on this forum is envious of your life doc!

My kids love that movie too.

When you get a minute Bob I sent you a PM regarding an Eastbay glove. Thanks!

Sandlot was mostly filmed here in Salt Lake City in a fairly quite part of town. One boy from our local school had a small part in the movie. You can't help but get the goose bumps when you drive by the area....Also, my tax accountant lives close to Dale Murphy, about 30 miles from my home. I may be able to do a hookup if a forum member has a glove he'd like signed. Send me a pm. [/url][/list][/list][/code][/quote][/u][/i][/b]

Here is a detailed post with many of the forum's favorites:

http://www.vintagebaseballgloveforum.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1367

Then I won't tell you guys what I did with my father's Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, and Connie Mack ball collection. It envolved an 8 year old's desire to make some autographs stand out a little darker...

offsidewing wrote:Then I won't tell you guys what I did with my father's Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, and Connie Mack ball collection. It envolved an 8 year old's desire to make some autographs stand out a little darker...

ohmigosh ... I am having acid reflux right now ... tell me you are kidding ...

Sadly, I am not. I grabbed a fabric pen on Connie and Walter. Since I was just darkening the script, wonder-mom was able to remove the chalk easily with no indication of my good natured intent.

Unfortunately for George Herman, I switched to an ultra fine point Sharpie that was mostly dried out. My dad just jokes that my great grandfather got Babe Ruth's autograph when the babe was eight. My dad never got upset at me, not for a second.

My grandfather was New England native and a minor league prospect with the sox in the 40's and involved with the team well into the 50's. So, while the de-authenicating of a Babe Ruth ball certainly stings, the house has some neat memoribilia with family sentiment. So considering what I could have ruined, messing up a Babe Ruth autograph is probably better than using an old glove with "9" written on it as second base in the back yard.

Needless to say, from that day forward nothing from my dad's home office was ever allowed to be taken to show-and-tell again.

A good friend on mine grew up very near Dodger Stadium. He and his father went to a lot of games and his dad got him a ball autographed by many of the mid-60's Dodgers (he remembers Drysdale, Koufax, Perranoski, Podres, Roseboro, Gilliam, Wills, Tommy & Willie Davis, but there were others).

Well -- while playing a pickup game one day, they lost their ball. You can guess the rest.