Mr. M's cousin Bill told an anecdote just a few days ago at the funeral of the cousin's brother, Steve, who spent his entire life in a wheelchair with a form of muscular dystrophy. The brothers went to a baseball game one day, and Steve was looking forward to seeing Joe Pepitone, one of his favorite players. To their dismay, Joe had been injured the previous day and wasn't going to play, but then they spotted him in the stands in street clothes. Fans were crowded around, talking to him, trying to get autographs, etc.
"Please go over and ask him to come over and see me," Steve asked. Bill reluctantly did so, and he wasn't sure Joe even heard his request. A few innings later, however, "this guy with big black sideburns" came and sat next to Steve's wheelchair and spent some 20 minutes talking to him. One of the high points in Steve's life was meeting and talking to Joe Pepitone.