Signed, sealed, delivered: How the gift of a 1963 baseball connected two Oxnard men
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Signed, sealed, delivered: How the gift of a 1963 baseball connected two Oxnard men

LA Times  

Feeling buoyant from his Oxnard High graduation ceremony and dinner with his mom and girlfriend, Denver Clayton Lemaster — everyone called him Denny — turned onto his narrow street and let out a nervous chuckle. “What’s all this?” The men were major league baseball scouts jockeying to shovel more money to Denny than he’d ever imagined. “You’ve got a country mother who didn’t know anything about baseball and the son who just turned 19 bargaining with these guys, and this is all they do,” Denny says today. He gave Buddy Denny’s phone number, and soon a conversation took place between two Oxnard fellows and baseball men. “Oxnard doesn’t even have a Denny Lemaster Day,” he says.

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