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McMurfy -> RE: Idle Talk - 5th Chapter (5/27/2021 2:20:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.
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ORIGINAL: Trekgeekscott
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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.
I'll give a hint about the ending of this story by saying that it's a baseball story.
My mom grew up in the tiny town of Cass Lake, Minnesota (about 13 miles south of Bemidji to orient you). In those days the town was kind of idyllic because it was resort-oriented given its setting on beautiful Cass Lake. A fisherman's dream lake.
When she was a teenager, my mom was in the class play at Cass Lake High School and one of the tasks for people working on the play was to sell tickets. Armed with a program, so people could see what the play was about and which town members were acting in it, she brought a stack of tickets to one of the local cafe's. At one table sat one of the locals, and with him was an old friend who was in town to visit the friend and to get some fishing in.
As my mom told the story, when she approached the table she held out the program and started in on her spiel, but the visiting man simply took the program out of her hands, signed his name on it, and handed it back.
My mom said she didn't know what to do. Not only did she not get to make her pitch to sell tickets, but the guy had written on her program! She was incensed, but for some reason felt compelled to keep the program. It was a few years later that she realized that she had a pretty nice little keepsake.
I'm not going to reveal yet who it was who thought she was looking for an autograph. My mom was born in 1929, so that will give you a sense of the timing. She was probably 16 or 17 at the time of this event.
Who do you think gave her his autograph that day?
Ted Williams?
Joe DiMaggio?
You got it right off the bat. It was Ted Williams, who apparently was a fan of fishing in Cass Lake, MN.
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Great story,
I did the Math in my head and guessed Ted Williams just because I knew he was a Sportsman.
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