Email from Japan re: Hobie Landrith

[Guest KC]

This was sent to the cranepoolforum@gmail.com address, I only just no-
ticed it this afternoon.

Hi,
thank you for your e-mail. He's referring to the sign up auto-reply
I have written my essay attached below and have tried to submit it
but in vain. Why?
Please submit it to the Baseball Forum.
Thnak you for your kindness in advance.

fujioka from Japan

Hi, I'm a baseball fan in Japan aged 57.
Please listen to my human story on Hobie Landrith who was a catcher of NY
Mets in 1962?with me.
When I was twelve, 1960, Hobie Landrith, 30 then, came to Japan as a member
of SF Giants then to have games against All Japan.
While I watched their warming up from the right wing stand before the game
at Kusanagi Stadium where Lou Gehrig hit a homerun
before the war, 1934, Hobie Landrith came up to me and helped me to get down
to the right field. He walked with me to their dugout
and presented me his spare spikes! How wonderful his hospitality was!
But in those days I could not understand his such behavior fully, because I
did not know why he chose me only among the boys in the
right stand and why he presented me his precious spare spikes.

Now I imagine he should have missed his son in the US then, so he should
have felt dear looking at me.

Anyway the memory of it, 45 years ago, suddenly have fallen on me. So I have
sought his recent condition through the Internet, finding
he is still living now, 75 years! I would like to tell him it is so nice of
him still living and how I feel to thank him for such beautiful memory
between us!
However I have not succeeded in having his e-mail address nor his address
through the Internet.

Please show me his e-mail address or his address when someone have it. T
hank you very much for your kindness in advance.

Masa from Japan

[nymr83]

pretty decent english...
anyone know how we can help him out?

[metirish]

That's cool, Yancy should get on this case and invite the old catcher here.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

http://www.whitepages.com/10583/search/Replay?search_id=40021392017077078106&lower=1&more_info=1

Maybe?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Heavens.

A lot of dummy accounts have been added in recent weeks. I might have deleted his account shortly after he made it. Totally bad, edgy.

Maybe Frank Thomas has Mr. Landrith's contact in his rolodex.

[Guest KC]

I've deleted a bunch too, but I try and limit it to the ones advertising ring-
tones which seem to be mechanically registering - I could have easily wiped
him out too by accident and almost think I did wipe out someone from Japan.

Ooops, if I did.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I feel like we had some personal information on Hobie a few months back. Something about his son and something about him running a fishing camp or something.

Mets Walkoffs tells us a kewl thing about Hobie: Hobie Landrith's walk-off home run was his only homer with the Mets. Others whose only Mets home run was a walk-off include Billy Baldwin, Esix Snead, and for now, Craig Brazell.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hobie.

Turned 76 two weeks ago.

[Zvon]

Thats a real neat communication.

Hope we hear from him again.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Perhaps he comes across (not litereally) James Landrith, privacy advocate and distant Hobie cousin. BTW, an admin prolly has an email on file from him, perhaps you forward something.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's the stuff. Forward Masa's e-mail to James Landrith.

[Theoldmole]

Interesting that in Edgy's celebrity site, under "Poetry," they only have Tom Meschery.

[Guest Edgy DC]

As interesting is that Hobie has only one baseball picture available to be signed (and that from his less-than-flourishing Met tenure).

Who is it that makes the effort to pursue an autographed picture of Hobie Landrith, but, given a choice, elects to have him sign a shot of him fishing or bowling?

I mean, Masa might, but who else?