My good friend Ray Peters passed away on May 4th from an illness. As anyone who has sent him a TTM request would agree, he was a gracious signer and was great to collectors. That was how I came to know him, through a TTM request in 2008. We corresponded through the years as I made him many custom cards, the last of which came back signed the week he passed. Over the last few years, I was involved with Ray and Keith Olbermann as Ray was tracking down former teammates and opponents. Ray would find them, we'd make the cards for them.
I think Keith summed everything up......
I will miss his e mails at midnight.........
I am in the same position as you, Bob. I will miss his lengthy emails diving into the minutiae of an event from 1970 and where everyone is these days and how they are doing. I will miss his laughter coming through every word, as was often the case when I spoke to him on the phone the couple of times I did that. And, I will miss his stories about his former teammates that he shared liberally but always in a way that was respectful to everyone.
ReplyDeleteHe will definitely be missed.
Hi Tony,
ReplyDeleteIs that your blog offhiatusbaseball? I just read the tribute to Ray....beautiful, just beautiful.