The Book Pages columnist Erik Pedersen writes this week about a sports legend’s heroic play inside a Pasadena department store.
There are plenty of iconic Southern California sports highlights, but possibly my favorite took place in a suburban Sears in Pasadena., especially their classic infield of Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Bill Russell, and my favorite, Ron Cey, a six-time All-Star third baseman and 1981 co-World Series MVP.
But the chance to see a penguin in the wilds of Pasadena? I had to go. My memory goes blank at how it came together but I wouldn’t be surprised if it involved some hard-core pestering on my part. Or maybe I just asked nicely and my lovely mom said yes. Let’s just go with that. Would it be worth the price of a plastic shirt? To me, yes. I could see Cey up ahead, sitting at a card table ready to start writing his name all over our possessions the way we fans like it.
What I remember him saying was this: I never agreed to that, and I’m not doing that. Shirts, gloves, pictures – bring it; I’ll sign whatever you want. You don’t need to buy a shirt if you don’t want to. As far as I know, this graceful play wasn’t captured on film — other than the shaky snapshot of mine — and the only replay I’m aware of has come from my telling and retelling this story over the years, so you’ll just have to settle for my glorious memory of it.
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