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Originally Posted by Cusick
I met Lou Grasmick some years ago, and he was quite cordial. There's no need to cast aspersions on him.
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It's not an aspersion. I'm merely reporting facts when it comes to my personal experience in dealing with "The Great" Lou Grasmick.
That just goes to show that every fan's experience with players and former players is different. (Perhaps you caught him on a good day - maybe he had just won millions from the Maryland or Delaware Lottery.) However, in my experience, Lou Grasmick was extremely uncooperative. After many previous attempts it finally took the efforts of a friend and fellow collector who lived near Grasmick near Baltimore to track him down and obtain a signed photo of him. Equally difficult was a teammate of Grasmick on the 1948 Phillies,. pitcher Dick Koecher, who at 88 years, 6 months of age recently was recently added to Wikipedia's 100 oldest currently living MLB players list. In my experience both of these men, who had only a cup of coffee or two in the majors yet act like they are big shots and big stars, had no tact when it came to handling fans. Fans were merely an annoyance to them and they didn't attempt to hide their annoyance!.