I want to thank everyone who sent in their much appreciated comments and much encouragement as well as those who I have met at the fields. You guys make it awfully hard to walk away. Unless someone can donate some legs or a new wonder drug I'd reconsider.
Artie, Eddie Class and I will each donate 1 good leg since that is all we have left ourselves. We are definately going to miss you on the >38 A's. You know how to take a ribbing and we all loved giving you one. Remember the time we were supposed to pick you up at the HoJo's on Rt 9W on the way to Kingston and we accidently forgot you. You were so pissed when you got to the field, I thought your head was going to explode. It really was an oversight as each of us driving thought the other car had you included, but it still provided some great fodder for the dugout gang. A tradition of A's baseball is to have 1 or 2 "PLAYS OF THE GAME" after every game where the boneheaded play was repeated to the delight of every one not included in the play. Artie had a few memorable "Plays" and we will always remember him on our team. Artie was always ready to pitch...every game no less and he loved to warm up from 2nd base to our catcher Ray Demers. He always threw harder from 2nd than from the mound when the game started. And who could forget Artie always "Looking" to be picked up or so it seemed by whatever team the A's just happened to be playing on any given day. He could always be seen discussing something with our opponents before and after the game. The rest of the A's always got a kick out of that. You know we love ya and will always be thinking of ya. Forever an A Kevin Moon
