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Phogge, maybe you can add some stories to this article - SpokaneLee - 07-04-2018

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/Going-back-decades-ballpark-vendors-share-tales-13048148.php?t=e2b3d321ed

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RE: Phogge, maybe you can add some stories to this article - BobK - 07-04-2018

The best was at Stanford with the rubber chicken. 

Tom Sweeney was written about by Herb Caen.   Got to say hi Tom after that several Times.

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RE: Phogge, maybe you can add some stories to this article - Phogge - 07-04-2018

Great story. I never knew any names but there were a few guys who started at Seals games and then Giants at Bryant Street and CP. There were some characters in the crowd like an old guy with a cane named Gus who would wave the cane at the enemy and scream Filipino curses. The former UPI bureau chief sat on the third base side at Seals S and would get hammered every night. He hated Mays and you could hear his call over several sections, “Here comes Mr. Popup!”

In the press box HOFer Ernie Lombardi handed out soft drinks with the biggest hands I ever saw. Horace took care of his old friends and Ernie wasn’t doing well so he got a soft job. Almost all of them retired to the press lounge after the games to drink Johnny Walker Red. Fascinating to sit quietly and listen to Hodges, Gary Schumacher, Clancy Sheehan and Frankie Bergonzi tell old baseball and boxing stories.

The vendors worked CP, Kezar, Civic and Cow Palace for the Warriors and at various venues for the Bay Bombers. Some worked at Kal but I never saw any in Palo Alto.

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