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Hi Michael ----- Great story! I would have thought I'd died and gone to heaven if I could have worked at Ebbets in those days. Remember Happy Felton well -- but mostly the players (today's seem pale imitations by comparison): the incomparable Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee, Jim Gilliam, Gil Hodges, Campy, Duke Snider (my personal favorite & yes I have one of the Duke's Fiesta chips!), Carl Furillo, Sandy Amoros, Don Hoak, Don Zimmer (last of the old Brooklyn Dodgers to wear a major league uniform), Carl Erskine, Billy Loes, Don Newcombe and not to slight him Johnny Podres. I wish I still had all of the player buttons that I collected in those days (remember them; had the small chain with a baseball, glove or bat dangling below the pin).

Saw some memorable games -- such as Erskine's no-hitter against the hated Giants in 1956 (I still have the photos my Dad took at that game) and the night Milwaukee's Joe Adcock hit four home runs and a double to set a total bases in a game record that still stands (as I recall, the double hit the wall just a few feet shy of being a 5th home run!). Bet you saw even more.

Thanks for the reminder of good old times! ----- jim o\-S

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