Today I received a neat baseball I had sent to Jim Marshall. \u00a0Jim is not someone a typical baseball fan thinks of or even heard of in most cases. \u00a0I happened to be watching MLB’s 2015 Legends In Scouting where they honored a few\u00a0baseball scouts. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0Mr Marshall was introduced as “an original Met. \u00a0He played for Casey Stengel, worked for PK Wrigley, Managed for Charles O’Finley and was the first Major League player to play in Japan”. \u00a0That is quite the resume spanning a number of decades! \u00a0I sent him a baseball requesting all that on a baseball and received it back with:
\nHis name and “2015 Legends In Scouting” on the sweetspot.
\n“Original Met 1962”
\n“Played for Casey Stengel”
\n“1st ML player to Play in Japan Chunichi Dragons 1963”
\n“Managed for Charlie O’Finley Oakland A’s 1979”
\n“Managed for P.K. Wrigley Chicago Cubs 1974-1976”
\nHe 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. \u00a0What an awesome baseball! \u00a0It certainly tells a story of an amazing person and their life devoted to baseball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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