A buddy of mine had a John Stearns Mets jersey...big Stearns fan. We went and saw the Orioles play in the mid-ninties when Stearns was coaching under Davey. We made our way down to the filed level during batting practice and my buddy starts yelling at Stearns to come over and take a picture and Stearns ignores him. After about 5 minutes of my friend yelling at him, John turns around to look. My buddy points to his jersey number and yells, "Look, I'm wearing your number." Stearn's yelled back, "That's not my number. That's Jeff Kent's number." 12 was always Stearns to me after that.