Was the baseball Freddie Lewis. My son got to batboy for team usa when they were at spring training maybe 10 years ago and Frank Robinson was manager. I had maybe 4 Topps leaders cards just missing Frank to get them completed. Frank and Noah would have many long converstations. Noah taught Frank the things they'd yell at the batter while Noah was on his HS team. Frank starting using them. Every day Noah would ask Frank to sign and he'd look at the cards and say "maybe someday". . He eventually signed a team picture but not the cards. Noah got his picture with Frank and we were going to get it signed but the camera place lost it when we brought it in to get developed (before we had a digital camera). A few years later I ran into Frank at the mlb winter meeting in LV. We talked about Noah but he still wouldn't sign.
Only time I got him was 1967. Went to hotel in NYC. 6 or us walked with him about a mile to another hotel and he went in for an hour. When he came out he signed.
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