<VV> Baseball players and Corvairs - the answer

[Vairtec Corporation]

Thank you to those who replied to my inquiry about major league baseball 
players who owned a Corvair.

I got the answers I needed, and in a moment I'll tell you why I needed 
them and what those answers were.

But first, as is laughingly typical in any online forum, I also received 
wholly irrelevant replies, replies about figures from other sports, 
replies about minor-league players, and replies almost entirely 
unrelated to the original question.

Human nature is fascinating.

Anyway, I was seeking the information because my local club was going to 
a baseball game this past Saturday, and I was writing up a "blurb" for 
the public address announcer.  In order to make that blurb more 
appealing to the announcer, thereby increasing the possibility that he 
would actually use it, I wanted to connect Corvairs to known baseball stars.

I was able to confirm Corvair ownership by Tom Seaver (Hall of Fame 
pitcher for the New York Mets) and Don Mattingly (first baseman for the 
New York Yankees).  Perfect -- we are located in the New York market.

So I wrote up a radio-commercial-like speil, which noted the club's 
presence at the game, noted what the Corvair was, noted that the club 
was this summer commemorating the Corvair's 50th anniversary and the 
club's 40th anniversary, and then made mention of these two well-known 
players who had owned Corvairs.  It would take 30 seconds to read it all.

It worked.  During the game the announcer mentioned the presence of 
several organizations, but only the Corvair club got any recognition 
beyond a mention of the group's name.  The announcer read my script, 
word-for-word.  Probably only a handful of fans actually paid any 
attention, but that's not really the point.

Thank you to those who helped confirm the Seaver and Mattingly ownerships.

--Bob Marlow