My dad and I used to love going over and getting autographs from him every time we went to watch them at Houston Raceway Park ever March for a long, long time. We'd watch him, Al Hoffman, Kenji Okazaki, Cruz Pedregon, Mike Dunn, Kenny Bernstein, Joe Amato, Eddie Hill (he was a big favorite of ours since he was one of the national guys who was actually from Texas), Walter Johnson, Gary Ornsby (before he sadly passed away from cancer in '93), Conrad "Connie" Kalata, his late son Scott Kalata, and quite a few others. I miss those days because he and I really bonded over that. (Well, that and baseball, but he loved baseball growing up. He hated football as an adult.)