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One of the last persons to see Roberto Clemente alive, father of Neil Walker, has passed away. Still pretty young, I'd say, only 74.

https://triblive.com/sports/former-majo ... at-age-74/

Heard the news last night. This one hits home a bit....


I may have mentioned this before, but I grew up with Neil (classmates at St Alphonsus in Wexford until 5th grade) and played baseball & basketball with him (usually on the other team, which sucked). I should go diving through my old box of childhood yearbooks and whatnot to see if I still have any pictures from those years. I had a card signed by Tom once upon a time.

Anyway, some fun Neil stories:
- I've seen interviews where he's said he was a life long Pirates fan, but I distinctly remember him always wearing an Expos stocking cap in the winter
- Can't remember how he said he got them, but Neil was given receiving gloves from Charles Johnson. Wore those damn things for recess football for like a month straight.
- My mom took us all out for McDonalds after basketball practice one day (had to have been 4th grade, so 10 years old?). Neil put down a super-sized meal by himself. Scared the shit out of my mom

Thanks for sharing those memories, Pabst. I hadn't seen you mention it before.