wildnkrazykat
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My buddy took a little league team to St. Louis, they were from Steele Missouri, for a Reds/ Cardinals series. Turns out they were staying at the same hotel as the Reds. The coaches decided to give the kids a treat and get them up in the morning and wait outside the players team breakfast room to try to get autographs. When breakfast was over the doors came open and when the kids asked for autographs Bench and Rose told the kids to get out of the way they were busy. The rest of the team stopped and signed for the kids and talked to them for about twenty minutes (obviously they weren't busy enough to take a little time to talk to some little leaguers).My grandfather had box seats during the Big Red Machine days and I had the opposite experience with Pete. He always took the time for fans and kids, Johnny Bench, OTOH, was a prick.
I guess like us, they have their days too.
