Here are a couple videos from 6/23/2013:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY1OjWzvpzQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8RP-FFFJVE
June 2013:
June 2014:
July 2016:
June\July 2019:
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Vinnie and I down in Florida (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Vinnie and I\Kismet & Karma 2011-2012
Visiting former Pirates pitcher Bob Moose's grave 4/6/2013
Vinnie runs a Bob Moose blog:
http://bobmoosebobmoosebobmoosepiratespirate.blogspot.com/
As Vinnie writes:
"Bob Moose: my very first baseball card in 1974, playing for my beloved Pittsburgh Pirates; born 10/9/47...died 10/9/76; came closest of anyone to pitching no-hitter at Forbes Field (1968); Pirate rookie of the year 1968; pitched a no-hitter vs Mets 1969; led league in winning pct 1969; 1971 world series champ; threw wild pitch in October 1972 playoff game; led Pirates in saves in 1976."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxeRlINC57A
KARMA? KISMET? FATE? DESTINY? YES!
1) Vinnie's Mom went to high school with Amanda's grandfather and signed his 1954 yearbook with a personal message (they met again in Feb 2011 and discussed high school and the possibility that they were classmates)!;
2) Vinnie's Dad worked with Amanda's grandfather around 1963 at REA Express---when they met again in Feb 2011, they remembered some of the same people!;3) Vinnie's Mom and Dad have very good friends---and upstairs neighbors to their condo---named Tony and Myrna...who also happen to know Amanda well, as they are very good friends with Amanda's OTHER grandparents!;
4) Amanda's grandparents (in Pgh) have the same anniversary date as Vinnie's parents;
5) Amanda lived at the Brightwood Plaza Apartments (from 1988-1991; her Florida grandparents lived there up to 2001), the same complex Vinnie visited in 1982 and where his best friend Chris lived from 1994-2006;
6) At the Bethel Park Library one day in the Summer of 2010 with Amanda, Vinnie grabbed, at random, one of the many old BP yearbooks (1932-1998) that just happened to be the 1954 yearbook that pictured Amanda's grandmother;
7) 5/20/10: Vinnie and Amanda conversed online for the first time...and just happened to be at the Bethel Park Library at the very same time!
3/14/20: a co-worker, Chad Stack, passed away; he was 45 and graduated from Bethel Park. As it turns out, Amanda knew him, as he was her uncle Brian's best friend throughout the 1990's and into the new millenium! He had been over her pap's house countless times, went sled riding with her once, and even drove her to school one time. I only found all this out after Chad passed away (we were co-workers from 2014-2020 and we spoke fairly frequently in these last few years, never knowing of this connection; even her uncle Brian came to the same building to make a delivery, as he has done before [Brian and I chatted at the time])KARMA? KISMET? FATE? DESTINY? YES!
[location: spare room in Amanda's grandparent's home in Florida] Photo of Lou and Mary Jane (Amanda's grandparents down in Florida, first arrow) and Tony and Myrna (second arrow), VERY GOOD FRIENDS OF VINNIE'S MOM AND DAD WHO LIVE IN THE CONDO RIGHT ABOVE THEM IN THE SAME BUILDING--!!!!! Next to the photo? A picture of Amanda and Vinnie, of course
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