(What's that you say? Christmas was 2 weeks ago? Well...I'm a little behind.)
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| 1996 Leaf Signature Series - #138 - Keith Lockhart |
That was a very nice gesture -- He tossed this little beauty in there. This is an on-card auto of Keith Lockhart from the 1996 Leaf Signature Series. COMC says this was out of 3500(!). Poor Keith -- his signing hand must have been so tired. I guess that's not as bad as Marshall Faulk signing all those cards for the Madden game -- that took him months! But I digress...
I had actually forgotten that Keith Lockhart had played for the Royals. I remembered him as a Brave. He was mostly an IF platoon guy during his time in KC.
This brings up another thing -- famous people with the same name. There's lots of them! Both within sports and sports/non-sports combos. Baseball Keith Lockhart is not even the #1 Keith Lockhart google result. It's this guy:
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| Smug Keith Lockhart |
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This Keith Lockhart is the conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. If you grew up with only 5 TV channels like I did, you inevitably came across PBS showing the Boston Pops on the 4th of July and this guy was front-and-center. It takes a certain amount of compulsiveness to be a professional orchestra conductor -- worrying about little details that most of your audience doesn't understand or won't notice. That's gotta wear on a guy. That and wearing cummerbunds every day... :-)
Do any of you guys remember EITHER of these Keith Lockharts?
Nope. I did once buy my wife a pair of real conductor sticks in a nice rosewood case.
ReplyDeleteI am actually working on a post on this subject. Hopefully it'll appear in a week or two.
ReplyDeleteI remember watching the conductor on PBS. I liked him because he was young and energetic. I don't remember the ball player.
ReplyDeleteI too remember the baseball player Keith Lockhart playing for the Braves...but that's about it!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe I wasn't following your blog before. Signed up today.