A couple years ago I was fortunate enough to purchase a pair of tickets for Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. This was the game when Kirk Gibson hit his famous walk off home run and circled the bases on two really bad knees. I have a cool Story Ball signed by the Dodgers clubhouse manager on his recollection of that moment and later picked up the tickets. I was able to get Gibby to sign them fairly quickly after I received them but I wanted Dennis Eckersley to also sign them. As the story goes, the Dodgers’ scouting report on Eck was if he got two strikes on the batter he would throw a backdoor slider as that was his put-away pitch. Gibby knew this and when he got two strikes he looked for that pitch and clobbered it for his greatest moment in baseball. I kept looking for Eckersley to show up at a signing event as I really wanted an inscription on it. But, as luck would have it, he was a Fanatics exclusive in 2022 and they do not let their signers sign tickets. So I waited. Eck did not show up to any signings at the Hall of Fame induction weekend so I was thinking they might never get signed. Then my luck changed. Eck was signing at the Chicago Sports Spectacular. Since I had a pair of tickets, I figured I would send one to a pair of guys going to the show in case one had an issue or got lost in the mail or whatever. Today I received the ticket I sent to Donnie D (macey225 on SCN) and, as requested, Eck signed it with “Back Door Slider”. I love it! I cannot wait to get the other one soon as well! Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A couple years ago I was fortunate enough to purchase a pair of tickets for Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. This was the game when Kirk Gibson hit his famous walk off home run and circled the bases on two really bad knees. I have a cool Story Ball signed by the Dodgers … Continue reading “What The Eck? (Part I)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hof","category-tickets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}