Quote Originally Posted by mercury View Post
I had the pleasure of being tutored by Willie Stargell along with Orlando Cepeda & Tony Perez (all hall of famers) in Puerto Rico (jr. baseball camp) ... i was the bat boy for the San Juan Stars (MLB Winter League team)... Willie was down to earth... hard to explain but he was so respected by the team... a clubhouse leader...I remember him bringing in doughnuts (made sure we were taken care of)... always settling young players down... like a father... I'm not gonna ramble on... but you could not come up with a cooler more respected man than Willie.
That is fucking amazing. So cool. I've always respected Willie as well, dating myself but his HOF class was one of the first I remember getting voted in, actually THE first. I went right out and bought whatever baseball cards I could find of his (81 fleer maybe??), I thought it was so amazing.