When comedian Joe E Brown learned that Lou Gehrig was about to retire, he wrote Gehrig to request the ballplayer’s first baseman’s glove for his memorabilia collection. "Lou wrote back, asking me to name anything but that, and I understood, but I felt bad about having asked. Not long afterward, he retired. In the fall of that year, 1939, I went to New York to see the Yankees play in the World Series. Just before game time a bat boy came up to me and asked me to come to the Yankees’ bench. Well, Lou was waiting there. He was very ill, by then, so thin and gaunt, that I was startled at his appearance But Gehrig smiled and held something out to me; It was his first baseman’s glove. "Here it is, pal" Gehrig said. Lucille Ball playing softball in Central Park for the "Broadway Show League' when Lucy was appearing in "Wildcat." Julie Andrews, starring in Camelot was the catcher! In Stefan Kanfer’s biography: "Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball." Kanfer says that Lucille made Vivian Vance cry on set of "I Love Lucy" when Vance couldn’t catch a baseball.