Jim Dandy!

Today I received a neat baseball I had sent to Jim Marshall.  Jim is not someone a typical baseball fan thinks of or even heard of in most cases.  I happened to be watching MLB’s 2015 Legends In Scouting where they honored a few baseball scouts.  I was so impressed with Mr Marshall’s resume that I knew I had to send him a baseball and ask him to write his “stats” on it.  Mr Marshall was introduced as “an original Met.  He played for Casey Stengel, worked for PK Wrigley, Managed for Charles O’Finley and was the first Major League player to play in Japan”.  That is quite the resume spanning a number of decades!  I sent him a baseball requesting all that on a baseball and received it back with:
His name and “2015 Legends In Scouting” on the sweetspot.
“Original Met 1962”
“Played for Casey Stengel”
“1st ML player to Play in Japan Chunichi Dragons 1963”
“Managed for Charlie O’Finley Oakland A’s 1979”
“Managed for P.K. Wrigley Chicago Cubs 1974-1976”
He even wrapped the baseball box up in tissue paper when he sent it back to me and included his business card and even returned my donation.  What an awesome baseball!  It certainly tells a story of an amazing person and their life devoted to baseball!