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Old baseball in the garage is reminder of days when Fingers hit fungoes

Of things packed away in the garage, displayed in the den or tucked in the bottom of the sock drawer ....

Rollie Fingers used to hit me fungoes at San Diego Stadium before games early in the 1978 season.

At least that’s the way I looked at it.

I still have one of the baseballs.

It is discolored and faded now, but there’s no doubt we still would have put it in play during a pickup game at Sunset Park in La Mesa.

It remains easy enough to read the words stamped on it:

“Rawlings”

“Official Ball”

“National League”

“Charles S.