Joe Morgan

[underpants]

1. I had his autograph multiple times when I was a kid

I don’t know if we “knew someone” or if we were just early on to this but we used to get all their autographs probably every game we went to.

We’d walk over to a parking lot that was their parking lot. I remember it was not the ground floor. There’d be maybe 5 or 6 families there. The players came out pretty much in a small amount of time and they’d sign hats, programs, even bats.

Joe was a regular as were Concepcion Griffey Foster the pitchers and yes Pete Rose. All the time. Johnny Bench rarely was there “he’s busy” one of them would say if asked - probably icing his knees and reviewing with the pitching coach.

I had at least 5 maybe 10 sets of most everyone. We moved a lot and it really wasn’t a thing so I threw them away over the years.