Buck Paulson

BLOG: NAME DROPPING

I have been a name dropper with the best of them. For instance, when I was 18 years old and on my way to Spring Training at the Cleveland Indians Minor League camp in Daytona Beach Florida, I rode in a car with Roger Maris. Maris, as you may remember, hit 61 home-runs in 1960 to surpass the invincible Babe Ruth. I roomed briefly with Roger. Later, he watched one of my minor league games in Florida while he was on his way back to play with the Fargo-Moorhead team. I saw Maris again that winter in his home town of Fargo. I got a lot of mileage out of those brief encounters.

Another claim to fame came when I played with Fargo-Moorhead Twins the year before.
There was a rookie in the Northern League that year that later became quite famous…Hank Aaron. I talked to him briefly after one of our games in which another pitcher and myself had said during the game, “Hit a homer Henry and we will give you a dollar.” Whack, he hit a homerun!

Everyone in sports has heard of those two names. There have been others.

But the greatest name dropping I will ever do is to say that I KNOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. And, He not only knows me too, but He loves me. And He listens to me. And, He guides me in all of my life, which includes my ART.

He once died for me! What a friend!!!!!!!!!!

And, you can know Him too.

posted by Buck Paulson @ 4:50 PM