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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was impressed with the interaction of star pitcher Clayton Kershaw and the boy who visited him yesterday at the Allstar game press conference on behalf of a deceased grandfather who, the boy said, was a great fan and “loved” Kershaw.
Kershaw’s warm response was wonderful; and, of course, it took the keeper back to the Cincinnati All Star game of 1953 when as a “boy” soldier, he had a personal experience with pitcher Satchel Paige who displayed his accommodating character by signing the keeper’s game program a second time after a news photographer had shouted “One more, Satch!”
That day so long ago, replete with an encounter with Ted Williams who, like the keeper was just back from the Korean war, is an all-star memory in so many ways that the keeper may just spend all of today wallowing in it. It is certain that he will call up the video that shows him and “Satch” down on Crosley Field during pre-game batting practice. (MLB 1953 All-star game.) And if he were around to hear it, the keeper would tell Satch that he loved him.
1953 All-Star Game You Tube
