My first autograph. My parents took me to "The Dugout," his restaurant in Amityville, and they were selling signed balls in the glass case at the register. Then in the 1980s when we lived in Connecticut, he was active on the card show circuit. I have a Mets book my parents gave me as a birthday gift, and I'd ask players to sign the book. He was at one show with players from the 1962 team and another with players from the 1969 team, and I kept those on separate pages, so he's in the book multiple times. Always very gracious whenever I met him. Gonna be tough for some to break that 1,853 games Mets record! Just seeing that James Earl Jones died, too!