My husband has the best claim to fame. (Reply #13)

In the discussion thread: Ok.....what's your claim to fame with a sports figure?? [View all]

Wed Sep 18, 2019, 09:56 PM

luvs2sing (2,220 posts)

13. My husband has the best claim to fame.

His mother was a court reporter in Cleveland, and her best work friend was the wife of Luke Easter. The Easter’s spent a lot of time with my husband’s family so he got to know Luke well. My husband has a baseball from one of the All-Star games that Luke gave him, autographed by Joe DiMaggio among others. Luke was murdered in a robbery in 1979, but his children attended my mother-in-law’s funeral in 2014.

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67 replies	Author	Time	Post
Ok.....what's your claim to fame with a sports figure?? [View all]	a kennedy	Sep 2019	OP
I played golf with Jack Nicklaus.	TruckFump	Sep 2019	#1
I went to his high school.	unblock	Sep 2019	#12
Dallas Green coached my Babe Ruth team	randr	Sep 2019	#2
I love Bill Walton.......	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#5
I rode in an elevator	bmbmd	Sep 2019	#3
I rode in an elevator with Arnold Schwarzenegger a few times.	luvs2sing	Sep 2019	#6
Ha ha.....so body building is a sport eh??	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#8
Apparently..	luvs2sing	Sep 2019	#11
I knew several Bengals players..	luvs2sing	Sep 2019	#4
Ok, I'm intrigued.	Dagstead Bumwood	Sep 2019	#62
Late 70s folks..	luvs2sing	Sep 2019	#63
I went to see the movie about Jackie Robinson.	wasupaloopa	Sep 2019	#7
Good for you for making his day......	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#9
I bought bowling trophies for my junior league from Don Mincher.	House of Roberts	Sep 2019	#10
Speaking of Bowling	ProfessorGAC	Sep 2019	#60
We never missed watching the PBA finals on Saturdays.	House of Roberts	Sep 2019	#61
He Was A Superb Golfer, Too	ProfessorGAC	Sep 2019	#67
My husband has the best claim to fame.	luvs2sing	Sep 2019	#13
This is so sad......being murdered.	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#15
my ex had one- he went to high school w	mopinko	Sep 2019	#14
Played in a couple of pick-up	safeinOhio	Sep 2019	#16
Um, does it count that Joe Namath tried to pick me up at the airport...	Guilded Lilly	Sep 2019	#17
and he's married to my almost favorite female tennis player....	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#18
I do wonder about their kids--	dawg day	Sep 2019	#36
I've read that Jaden (their son) prefers baseball (heh).	Guilded Lilly	Sep 2019	#40
Sigh. These kids.	dawg day	Sep 2019	#43
Russ Hodges signed my Jack Purcell tennis shoe at a little league game	Brother Buzz	Sep 2019	#19
and sorry can you explain who Russ Hodges is......i don't know him.	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#20
Baseball Hall of Fame Sportscaster for the Giants, first in NY then in SF	Brother Buzz	Sep 2019	#21
I knocked out Joe Frazier	SCantiGOP	Sep 2019	#22
I remember that!	OilemFirchen	Sep 2019	#24
Not mine, but my mom's.	OilemFirchen	Sep 2019	#23
Larry the Legend!	dawg day	Sep 2019	#35
Met Kerri Strug, gymnast at a Target store in Tucson early 2000s, just said Hi and congrats	Baked Potato	Sep 2019	#25
Grampa Munster. Heheh..	sprinkleeninow	Sep 2019	#42
I taught Drew Gooden, Gilbert Brown, and Dana Stubblefield. nt	tblue37	Sep 2019	#26
Taught them what?	dawg day	Sep 2019	#34
Brown & Stubblefield: three classes of English. The third class was "Introduction to Poetry."	tblue37	Sep 2019	#49
1991 Trailblazers..	Permanut	Sep 2019	#27
Mickey Mantle signed base ball	pangaia	Sep 2019	#28
I played junior high sports against John Elway. He wasn't a threat at all in football, but was the	brewens	Sep 2019	#29
LOL. Too bad for MLB	dawg day	Sep 2019	#33
One thing was that we didn't have baseball until the 9th grade. Elway was playing on his	brewens	Sep 2019	#52
Lou Piniella back in the 70's. He took a longish look my way. 😍	sprinkleeninow	Sep 2019	#30
They all count (heh)!	Guilded Lilly	Sep 2019	#41
The Big O (Oscar Robertson) ate dinner with me--	dawg day	Sep 2019	#31
I shook hands with Jessie Owens,	RGinNJ	Sep 2019	#32
I worked for the team Dr for the Tulsa Drillers and took care of Sammy Sosa a few times.	Runningdawg	Sep 2019	#37
My first wife went out with Paul Hornung- Packers running back	redstateblues	Sep 2019	#38
My favourite ballerina came into a store where i worked. I was too shy to say	applegrove	Sep 2019	#39
Basketball great Bill Russell	FuzzyRabbit	Sep 2019	#44
As a young teen, Sensei George Harris 9th Dan	yonder	Sep 2019	#45
My granddad was best friends with Hugh Bedient.	Buzz cook	Sep 2019	#46
Dinner w/David Robinson & neighbor of Jack Clark	Justitia	Sep 2019	#47
Larry Bird mowed the grass @ a bank my husband worked at.	Justitia	Sep 2019	#48
I was working in Omaha,	kozar	Sep 2019	#50
The Golden Jet	Cartoonist	Sep 2019	#51
Harry Caray	snowybirdie	Sep 2019	#53
Autographs from the entire "Big Red Machine" in the 70's including Pete Rose	underpants	Sep 2019	#54
My grandmother was a cousin of Anita Aldrich	nitpicker	Sep 2019	#55
My sister dated Jim Jensen - a third string QB for the Dolphins.	Scurrilous	Sep 2019	#56
Worked with Nate Thurmond, Ronnie Lott,	Auggie	Sep 2019	#57
Chris Dishman came to the pool at my grandma's apartment complex growing up.	JonLP24	Sep 2019	#58
A Few	ProfessorGAC	Sep 2019	#59
Being a huge Miami Hurricanes fan...	twogunsid	Sep 2019	#64
That IS why I love ya Sid.....	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#65
I taught several athletes while I was a grad student at the University of Georgia	GaYellowDawg	Sep 2019	#66

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