Adventures in Autographs "The Pittsburgh Kid" BILLY CONN Part II of II

[JimStinson]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

Jim,
Did you tape some of these encounters like Ritter did for his book.
It would be great to hear them tell the stories. There is something special about hearing these guys tell their own stories. The Glory of Their Times audiobook is one of the best experiences ever.

Mark

I would have felt uncomfortable with a tape recorder, I did do a series of interviews on tape with "Old Bones" Joe Brown for a story I did to try and get him in the Hall of Fame before he died (He got inducted and passed away shortly after) , and Willie Pastrano just to name a couple but that was only because I got to know them pretty well. Pastrano who won the title from Harold Johnson and lost it to Jose Torres was one of the funniest story tellers ever but most of the things he talked about were probably not well suited to a public forum , and were to put it nicely better suited to an "adult audience"...

besides the recordings were on cassettes , do they even MAKE cassette players anymore ????
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