Word: autographs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smiled at them for years -- first as one of the rare, great sportsmen, unruined by his gifts or his fame, warm, grateful, ready to sign one more autograph when he was dog tired and overstretched. He ripened into the affable ABC commentator, the smooth corporate pitchman, even a plausible movie star. The legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg helped him learn the craft, but the art was innate. "He already is an actor, an excellent one," Strasberg said. "A natural...
...foreign rights, and a shopping channel to sell the fan memorabilia. They can put Pete Rose on there eight hours a day signing baseballs while they show film clips of his greatest hits, with a special ceremony when he breaks the record and pens his one millionth autograph...
When this writer approached him for an autograph earlier this season, he said. "I'm sorry, but the fans down in the bullpen were rude to me, so I'm not gonna sign...
...want some oversensitive prima donna refusing autograph requests...
Bush is one of the five members of that amorphous but exclusive club of retired Presidents. He phones up Reagan and Ford now and then. He sent Nixon 13 photographs of the five of them and asked him to autograph one each for Bush's grandchildren. "I'm not selling these," Bush promised. Nixon signed...