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The New York Times offered an awesome tribute to hobby ambassador Pat Neshek last week.
Tyler Kepner is one of my favorite baseball journalists. However, he didn’t address two questions:
1. How many players would send a clubhouse attendant to ask for someone else’s autograph?
2. How many current players wouldn’t confess to collecting autographs?
I hope everyone reads the whole feature. In the final paragraph awaits a surprise.
One autograph reply could have changed Neshek’s career!
In college, he wrote Virgil Trucks. All Pat got in return was a FOUR-PAGE letter offering advice to a young pitcher. It seems that “Fire” was a double inspiration…on the mound, and as someone who demonstrated how to sign autographs with style and grace.