Bird Ball

Sometime in the 70's, probably spring of '77, my Grandpa returned from Lakeland with a special present for his grandson. He brought me an autographed Mark "The Bird" Fidrych ball. You talk about cool. I didn't realize how cool it was until a few years later. I thought it was neat but didn't really catch on to the one–of–a–kindness until about five or six years later.

I still have the ball in my collection — and I value it greatly.