Spaulding wrote:
You are a Cubs fan.
Absolutely not, but we did have a lot of Cubs stuff. My dad worked right down the street from the ballpark and knew a lot of people who worked for the team. Once when Montreal was in town, one of my father's friends brought Ellis Valentine into the bank because he needed to cash a check. My dad cashed the check for him and it bounced.
We had a shitload of game used bats. When I got divorced and my longtime business blew up I didn't have anywhere to keep all this stuff (and I needed money). I still regret putting Ken Boyer's bat on ebay and letting it go for fifteen bucks. I knew it was worth about $300.00. But it's hard to establish provenance and I was selling a lot of stuff on there at the time and I didn't think it was good practice to bid my items in. I sold all the bats except for two of them. One I didn't sell because I can't tell who's signature is on it. The other one I kept because it means a lot to me.
When he first got called up to the Cubs Darrin Jackson was in his early twenties. The Cubs went on the road and his wife was by herself in Chicago trying to set up a household. She had a relatively big check from Chicago National League Baseball Club, Inc. made out to her husband that she needed to cash. Now who was going to cash a check made out to a guy for some 20 year old girl? So she's here with no money and her husband is on the road. My old man took care of it for her. And DJ never forgot. He came to visit my dad when he was in the hospital dying and brought a get well card signed by the whole 1989 team. He also brought the bat I'll always keep.
Great story. Helps your Cubs fandom make sense.
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