Tell us about your brush (or brushes) with greatness.

[brush]

4. Late one night in Berkeley years ago I drove into IHOP's parking lot and baseball great Reggie Jackson...

Last edited Thu May 1, 2025, 10:58 AM - Edit history (1)

was there. I was driving my Jaguar Mk ll, 3.8 sedan, and Reggie being a car guy and I nodded to each other as he checked out the car.

Around the same time my girlfriend and I and another couple at the "Both And" jazz club in San Francisco, jazz great Grover Washington Jr. was playing there and on a break, he joined us as our friends knew him. Nice guy.

Later and more current, '06, I was manning my golf club's booth at Michael Jordan's tournament in Vegas and Julius 'Dr. J' Irving walked pass on the fairway after his ball, and we both nodded to each other.

Shook hands with Barack Obama campaigned in Vegas in '07 at a campaign rally. Tall, smiling and fired up.

I nearly bumped into NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg going into Yankee Stadium for a game in the early 2000s. He was with his security detail.


Football great Jerome Bettis, 'The Bus', was there and is a very good golfer.'

Boarding a flight in the '80s I encounter Jesse Jackson sitting in the first class seats. We nodded to each other as I kept going to my coach seat.

I met 3-Star General Daniel 'Chappie' James, stationed at Davis Monthan AFB, at my AME church in Tucson, Az.