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Message: [QUOTE="OldSchooler, post: 4433477, member: 11804"] Just reached the super annuation level this year. That means I can remember watching Don Larsen's perfect game in '56, and Bucky Dent's HR two decades later. I once met Bobby Thomson, and I told him, "Bobby, I'm one of the few people in America who was NOT at that game," to which he replied, "Well, you're an honest man." Also got to meet Don Budge, America's last true grand slam tennis champion. I was privileged to be present for a lot of exciting sporting events: Got to see a lot of Mickey and Yogi. The final game of the '77 WS, when Reggie hit 3 HRs on his only 3 swings. David Cone's perfect game. Chris Chambliss' pennant-clinching HR in the '76 AL playoffs. Bob Cousy's final home game at Boston Garden, in game 5 of the '64 NBA finals. NCAA finals in '68, UCLA over UNC. NCAA Far West regional final a year later, UCLA over Santa Clara, in Lew Alcindor's final home game at Pauley Pavilion. At the AAU track meet in Sacramento in '68, I saw three men break 10 seconds in the 100m for the first time in history. Saw the great Don Schollander of Yale in a dual meet at Stanford. Saw the great Steve Prefontaine win a race on his home track at Eugene. I was AT the Heidi Game in Oakland in '68 -- one of the 50,000 who actually saw those last 63 seconds -- in the last game the Jets would lose before winning the "Third World Championship Game" (that's when they changed the name to "Super Bowl III"). I saw the great Roberto Clemente set a MLB record at Dodger Stadium in '70 -- the only player to score 5 or more runs in a second consecutive game. At the '76 Olympics, I was at the Montreal Forum to see Poland upset USSR in the Men's Volleyball finals. Took my 10-year-old son to the WS clincher in '96, and the scoreboard wished him a happy birthday during the 7th inning stretch. Yeah, it's been a great run. And you know what would be a capper? Geno bringing home #12. [/QUOTE]

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