You wouldn't believe how many Nolan Ryan cards he has.'' 'He started out collecting all the baseball cards. 'As a kid, he'd work and then spend literally hours in a baseball-card shop,'' said Jerry Dipoto Jr., father of Rockies closer Jerry Dipoto III. He would be wearing a baseball cap and tilt it way back on his head because that's how all the old ballplayers wore them on their baseball cards. He'd have a scorecard, of course, and if he missed what Kirt Manwaring did in the third, he'd find out if it meant going three sections over to ask. Nothing like watching a game with the buddies. No way he would miss the chance to watch Juan Gonzalez, Pudge Rodriguez, Will Clark and John Wetteland play against the Colorado Rockies.ĭipoto might have brought along his wife and kids, or he could have gone with a few friends. June 8 - If he didn't have such a great arm, and his life took him to Colorado anyway, Jerry Dipoto would be somewhere in the Coors Field stands today.
