++ [ originally posted by Tifoso Lou
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I was in a photo shop in Stockton (I was already a Yankees fan)---they had a bunch of signed bats, gloves and even a WS ring. I said wow, where did you get all this cool stuff? Frank Crosetti (shortstop for 1939 Yanks--had 14 WS rings). I said wow, must have been cool. How did you meet him? He lives in Stockton. Wow, could you get him to sign a ball for me? Sure. Called back a week later. Is it signed? Not yet...why don't you go to his house? I called him. He said to come on over. He signed the ball and gave me a signed photo. Came from the same part of Italy as my family. We talked for over an hour.
He knew Babe Ruth. Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle--and me. Great guy. That's why