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Waivers are a request to make a player more that must be granted by the other 29 teams. Major League Rule 10 - Major League Waivers defines waivers and spells out how waivers may be used.A waiver is a permission granted for certain assignments of player contracts or for the unconditional release of a (see Rule 8). There are two types of waivers: Outright assignment waivers and Unconditional Release waivers. Waiver requests are always irrevocable. See Rule 10(d)(2) (Restrictions on Waiver Requests).That’s the official definition, most of us discuss waivers in terms of trade waivers, release waivers, option waivers and outright waivers. Trade waivers and option waivers are different flavors of the same thing; both assign a players contract to a different team.I need define some terms.Major leagues service timeA player axcquires one year of Major League Service time after being assigned to the active roster for a period of 172 days during the season. This is includes time on the Major League injury list.RostersTeams are generally discussed in terms or two rosters, a 40-man roster reserve roster and 25-man (active) roster (the 25 -man changes to a 26-man next year). As the season progresses, teams may bring players on the 40-man roster to the majors to replace players on the active roster.Rosters contain a mix of veterans and younger players who have yet to gain veteran status.Veteran’s are players who have over five years of Major League service time, they earn special privileges at that point that come into play when discussion waivers.Veteran players many not be optioned (sent down) to a minor league team without their permission. This is true even for rehab after injury.Amateur players signed to professional contracts and added to the active roster, remain under the control of the team until they reach six years service time.OptionsOptions are actually option years. Players who haven’t to reached veteran status, may be moved between optioned to a minor league affiliates and recalled as many times as they wish - with certain restrictions - in each option year. Option years need not run consecutively, as long as option year isn’t used, it remains available until the player reaches veteran status.Super TwoWhat is a Super Two? | Glossary To qualify for the Super Two designation, players must rank in the top 22 percent, in terms of service time, among those who have amassed between two and three years in the Majors. Typically, this applies to players who have two years and at least 130 days of service time, although the specific cutoff date varies on a year-to-year basis.The actual number of days changes from year-to-year, but generally falls between 120 and 132.Outright assignmentAn outright assignment moves a player off of the 40-man roster and assigns that player to a minor league affiliate.Okay, let’s talk waivers.Unconditional Release waiversThese are the easiest to understand. A team who wants to remove a player from it’s organization. Typically he’s no longer performing at a level useful to the organization, but players may be granted their release upon request.Once a player is placed on release waivers other teams may claim him, but typically wouldn’t because claiming the player also claims his remaining contract. If they wait for the player’s released they pay only the prorated portion of the league minimum for that player. Unconditional Release waivers are always irrevocable.The Red Sox signed Pablo Sandoval to a five year,$95M contract with a $5M signing bonus. Things didn’t work out for Pablo in Boston and the Red Sox released him in July 2017. The Giants brought Sandoval on board after his official release and in 2018 they paid him $545,000 while the Red Sox paid $18.05M. IN 2019 The gIants paid $555,000 and the Red Sox paid $18.05M. The Giants released Sandoval after this season and the Red Sox will pay him a $5M buyout of his 2020 option year.Outright WaiversWhen a team needs space on it’s reserve roster, they request an outright waiver. This is a request that the other 29 clubs allow the player’s assignment to a minor league affiliate.If a request is made to outright a player on the active roster and:The player isn’t claimed during the waiting period (or seven days depending on the date of the request) the team may assign the player to a minor league affiliate.The player is claimed, the team may recall the player but won’t know who claimed him, orThe player’s contract is assigned to the claiming teamThe 2017–2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) gives outrighted players some extra rights under ARTICLE XX—Reserve System, paragraph D.(1) Election of Free Agency—3-Year PlayerAny Player who has at least 3 years of Major League service, or who qualified as a “Super Two” Player (after last season) and whose contract is assigned outright to a Minor League club may elect, in lieu of accepting such assignment, to become a free agent . . .(if he doesn’t elect free agency then) he may elect free agency between the end of the then current Major League season and the next following October 15, unless such Player is returned to a Major League roster (before that) Any Player who accepts an outright assignment as a “Super Two” Player will not retain a right to elect free agency following the season.This gives a player with three years service time or qualified as a Super Two, the right to become a free agent. If the three year player accepts assignment, he has the right to change his mind at any time before the next October 15, unless he’s been added to the reserve roster again. Super Two players don’t get that option.(2) Election of Free Agency—Second Outright AssignmentAny Player whose contract is assigned outright to a Minor League club for the second time or any subsequent time in his career may elect . . .to become a free agent . . . (if he accepts assignment) he may elect free agency (any time until the next) October 15, unless such Player is returned to a Major League roster . . .The graphic comes from Major League Rule 10 (b) (I)Designated for AssignmentIf a team wishes to send a player with no option years remaining, and who is not yet a veteran, they must designate him for assignment and he must pass through the waiver claim periodIf the player is claimed. the claiming team pays a waiver fee of $20,000 and get their man,If the player’s isn’t claimed his team can assign him to a minor league roster.A veteran player can refuse a minor league assignment and become a free agent but his existing contract is no longer in force and he forfeits any remaining money on that contract.

Short version:A team holds three option years on players who do not have five years major league service time. The team may within certain guidelines move that player back and forth between the majors and minors at will. Options are a year long so a player may be optioned and recalled repeatedly and still use just one option.Designating a player for assignment is a method of clearing a man from the roster in order to replace him with a different player. Generally these players are also outrighted off the 40-man roster. Within certain parameters, players designated who may elect free agency or accept assignment.The gory details:Major league teams maintain a 40-man roster of players (the Reserve List) for whom they own the contract. The 25-man roster (the Active list) is the subset of the larger roster containing players currently with the major league team. Options are covered under Rule 11 of the Major League Rules - the rules governing administration of the league, not the rules of the game.Any movement of a player from team to team or team to unemployment is an assignment. Players on the 40-man roster but not on the 25-man roster are on optional assignment.From the time a player is placed to a team's 40-man roster the first time, a team has three option years on that player. After that the player must pass through assignment waivers.Options run for a championship season. A player may move up and down 10 or more times within a season and still use only one option.An option is used if the spends at least 20 days in the minors in any of those 3 seasons. This means players called up but not sent down for two years still has three option years remaining as long as he doesn’t have five full years of major league service time. This makes figuring out who has options remaining and who does not a little complicatedA fourth option year for a player with less than five full years of major league service time may be requested in the following cases.The player did not spend 90 days on any active professional roster in a season. Minor leagues below A+ level may have seasons shorter than 90 days. Players who spend a full season in a rookie or A (short-season) ball receive a fourth option year.Players who didn’t spend at least 60 days on an active professional roster AND at least 30 days on a disabled list in a season may receive a fourth year. Players normally accrue service time while on the disabled list. However they must first have 60 days on an active professional roster before time begins to accrue. Again short season ball doesn’t count.Option years move from team to team, so a player with option who gets traded takes those options to his new team.Once the three option years are used players must be placed on and clear assignment waivers before being sent down. Veteran players with five years of major-league service may not be assigned to a minor-league team without the player’s consent. This is true even when a team wishes to send a player on a rehab assignment.Designated for AssignmentTeam rosters are a fixed size. When a team wants to add a player to either roster they must remove an existing player unless they have room because a player is on the DL. Players on the 60-day disabled list do not count against the 40-man roster while players on the 10-day or 7-day concussion DL do.Players designated for assignment with options may be sent down but players who are out of options must pass through assignment waivers. Players being sent down and removed from the 40-man roster pass through Outright assignment waivers.The teams names (designates) the player to be assigned (thus designated for assignment) and the player is released or their contracts assigned to the minor league team within 7 days.That player can’t participate in a regular season game at any level until they are traded, released or assigned to a minor league team. This move also removes the player outright from the 40-man roster.Veteran players have the right to refuse assignment and become free agents.Players on optional assignment placed on outright waivers have a waiting period of three days instead of seven.ARTICLE XX –—Reserve System of the 2017- 2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), paragraph D, gives players designated for outright assignment certain rights.Paragraph D (1) specifies that any Player who:has at least 3 years of Major League service, or who qualified as a “Super Two Player” at the end of the previous season andwhose contract is assigned outright to a Minor League club,may elect free agency.It also allows a player with three years major league service time who accepts outright assignment but is not added back to the Major League roster to choose free agency between the end of the then current season and October 15 of the nest year.For Example:Joe Ballplayer has three years service time and gets designated for outright assignment in August. He accepts the outright assignment but on June 1 of the next season gets frustrated because he isn’t back on the 40-man roster. He may elect free agency at that time.If the team returns Joe to the 40-man roster on May 31, he no longer has the option to elect free agency.“Super Two” Player(s) who accept assignment does not have the right to decide different later regardless of his position relative to the 40-man roster.A player whose contract is assigned outright to a Minor League club a second time or any subsequent time in his career may elect free agency.If the Player does not elect free agency, he may elect free agency as described above.More stuff about waivers:According to Rule 10 of the Major League Rules (the rules governing the league not the rules of the game), there are three types of waivers:Trade assignment waivers,Outright Assignment Waivers, andRelease WaiversTrade Waivers:Teams may trade players at any time after the season ends until July 31st of the current season - the non-waiver trade deadline. They may negotiate with every team to find the best deal and choose not to make a trade if a deal can’t be reached.Trade waivers are the actual administrative method one team trades a player to another team between the August 1 and the end of the season; these are commonly called waiver trades.Trade waivers may be either revocable or irrevocable. As the name implies, a player on revocable waivers need not be traded while a player on revocable waivers is gone once claimed.Teams may put players on revocable waivers once after August first and most teams run every player - up to seven players per week - through waivers a that time.If the player clears waivers (no team claims him) the player may be freely traded at any time just as before July 31.Players placed on waivers may be claimed off the waiver-wire by any team. Once claimed the two teams may attempt to negotiate a trade. If they agree the trade takes place as usual.If the player is claimed and the team doesn’t really want to trade him, they revoke the waiver and the claiming team gets nothing. However, care is need in making a claim because the other team may simply give the player and his contract to the claiming team.At one time teams would make a claim to prevent another team from getting a player sometimes it backfires. In 1998 the Padres claimed Randy Myers and the over $13million remaining on his contract from the Blue Jays in order to keep the Braves from getting him.The Braves didn’t want him and neither did the Jays because Myers was done. He 21 appearances for San Diego and pitched badly. He never pitched again but the Padres paid him $6.6million in 1999 and $6.9million in 2000.If the player is claimed and the team revokes the waiver - chooses not to trade - that player may be placed on waivers again but those waivers are not revocable.It’s not unusual for more than one team to place a waiver claim.When this happens, the team with the worst record in the player's league wins the claim. If the player isn’t claimed by a team in his current league, the team with the worst record other league wins the claim. In April preference is based on the prior year’s standings.Release waivers are requested when a team simply wants to let a player go. After being released the player may sign with any major league team and that team pays only the major league minimum salary while the team that released him pays the rest.

I just remembered that I never answered this, although God knows I've spilled enough of my life story (and my guts) all over this site that of the people interested enough to read this, most will already know a lot of it.I was born in Baltimore, Maryland to American-born Greek-American parents. My mother's people were from Sparta and my father's people from the islands. Three of my grandparents were born in Greece; my mother's mother was born in Pittsburgh to a Greek-born father and a Polish-born mother.[There's a legend in my family (I hope it's true) that my mother's mother's mother left Poland as a teenager because she was running away from anarranged marriage to a coal miner twice her age. Whatever happened, shemade her way to Reading, Pennsylvania, where she got a job in a Greekrestaurant and met my great-grandfather, who was an itinerant puppeteer and looked like Cary Grant (seriously). They got married and embarked on a lifestyle that involved her staying at home for weeks or months while he went out on the road, touring from one Greek coffeehouse to another with hismarionettes. He would return home long enough to knock her up and thengo out on the road again.]My mother died in January 2013, just a few weeks before her 83rd birthday. Here she is on her 82nd birthday.My dad is 90. If Mom had survived another few months they would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in June 2013.My dad is a retired electrician who owned a small appliance store when I was a little girl, then foresaw the dominance of the big box stores (realizing he could not compete with a local store called Luskin's) and got a job as a troubleshooter at the big Bethlehem Steel plant in Sparrows Point, Maryland. He retired in 1984. My mom was the office manager at an insurance agency until I was born, then stayed home for about ten years, then took a part-time job, but basically dedicated herself to my brother and me.My brother is four years younger than I am. I despised him when he was born but for many years he has been very dear to me, and his 13 year old daughter Christina is one of the joys of my life. Unfortunately I live in Oregon and pretty much my whole family live in Maryland, so I don't see them more than three or four times a year, which can be hard sometimes. This is my brother and me, taken by Christina, on his birthday a few years ago. (She and I made the cake.)I'm very happily married to a guy I went to college with, Mike Radway. We were together as a committed couple for 26 years before we got married, and knew each other as friends for six years before that. During the time before we got married we got asked a lot of questions about how long we'd been together and I always used to enjoy responding, "Since the Carter Administration, although we met during the Nixon Administration."Stephanie V's answer to Do long-distance relationships work?Here is our wedding photo. We were married at the Multnomah County Courthouse. I'm glad no one ever called my mother's attention that I wore black (she's seen the photos of course, but in her relief that I was finally married she didn't pay much attention to the details).Not only did I manage to find an excellent life partner, he has a great family who have always welcomed me warmly into whatever events or activities I happened to be doing with them. I know many people can't say the same about their own in-laws and I feel very fortunate.When I was an adolescent I always assumed that I'd never get married, partly because I couldn't imagine ever wanting to marry anyone, and partly because I didn't feel like wife material. I am a slob and an terrible housekeeper. I'm not much of a cook (although I'm improving). I knew I didn't want to have children. I knew I would never want to change my name. Etc. However, the one time I tried to discuss these feelings with my mother I only succeeded in freaking her out because when I spoke the words, "I'm just not the kind of girl boys marry," she ran with that in a whole different direction. I figured it out later.Because I am a firstborn my mother had no idea I was a little weirdo when I started reading at about age 2.5. She just assumed this was how it went. We didn't have public kindergarten, so when she took me (just turned 6) to sign up for first grade they told her I had to take a reading readiness test. When she told them I'd been reading for years they didn't believe her until I started reading all the forms they had printed out for the parents, at which point I got to meet the principal, got sent for testing to the Baltimore County Board of Education, and got skipped into the second grade. So I was always a year younger than my classmates, all through school.I was never much good at sports but I was really good at pretty much everything in school, and I especially loved math, at least until I ran into second year algebra (the only D I ever got) and got scared off. I took five years of French and a lot of English and social studies classes instead. I got involved in student government, became the VP of my junior class and then the president of the student council. I was most likely to succeed and all that. My mother wanted me to stay in Baltimore and go to Goucher College (which was all female in those days). I wanted to go away, and I knew that if I was going to get my parents to accept it I needed to get into a major brand name school. I got into Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Goucher, and two other schools. Most first generation Greek-American fathers in 1973 would never have supported the idea of a daughter going to Yale. I had some financial aid and a bursary job but my parents came through with the money for me to go.Yale was a transformative experience for me.Stephanie V's answer to How has higher education changed your life?Stephanie V's answer to What does it feel like to attend a world-renowned university?For my senior essay in American Studies I decided to write about the Black Sox scandal. I called up the most notorious baseball fan on the Yale faculty, A. Bartlett Giamatti, and asked him to advise it. He agreed. A few months later he was elected President of Yale, but he insisted on keeping his commitment. Working on it with him was a great experience.After Yale I managed to land my dream job as an executive trainee with MLB (business).Stephanie V's answer to Is it really possible to make your own luck?While I worked as Manager of Waivers and Player Records for the American League, I went to law school in the evenings at Fordham. I graduated from Fordham in 1985 and lucked into something great. There was a new Commissioner, Peter Ueberroth. Peter didn't like lawyers but he did like professional women, and he created a new Assistant General Counsel position for me in the Commissioner's Office, so I could stay on. This was a huge break for me, and I'll always be grateful to him for it.In 1988-89 when it started to seem that moving on from MLB might be a good idea, Bart (who by then was National League President and would soon be Commissioner) introduced me to his Yale classmate Donald Dell. Donald was a former US Davis Cup captain and had started the first sports agency specializing in representing tennis players, ProServ. His first two clients were Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith. By the late 80s ProServ had branched out into other sports and represented hundreds of athletes including Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Greg LeMond, Boomer Esiason, James Worthy, Dominique Wilkins, and tennis players like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Stefan Edberg, and Gabriela Sabatini. I worked for Donald for eight years. A major highlight of that time was in 1990 when ProServ was hired to represent the merchandising rights to Nelson Mandela's first US visit, after his release from Robben Island. (When Mandela was released from prison, Arthur Ashe was the first person he asked to meet, and Arthur helped us get a meeting to pitch the business.) A colleague and I ran the merchandising program. It was thrilling.The licensee in the Bay Area was Winterland Productions. I flew out to San Francisco and appeared on local TV with the head of artist licensing at Winterland to urge people to buy only the officially licensed t-shirts, etc.In 1995 I was elected to the Board of Directors of the Sports Lawyers Association, and still serve as a director, and now as a member of the Executive Committee.I was recruited to Nike (company) in 1997 and worked there for almost 14 years. I was originally recruited to do sports marketing deals but lucked into an opportunity to start building Nike's global product safety team and infrastructure in a serious way in about 1999, and ran with it.In that job I built a global multidisciplinary virtual team that only saw each other perhaps twice a year, but which met weekly to deal with existing issues and plan out the mechanisms by which we hoped to prevent future issues. We traveled to Asia and Europe to give and receive trainings. We visited the European Parliament and the Chinese product safety authorities in Shanghai. We managed the occasional product recall and worked with product designers and developers to avoid future recalls. I served on the ethics committee of the Nike Sport Research Lab and my team and I worked with the NSRL and the product engines to decide how much we were willing to promise by way of product performance claims based on their work. I worked with amazingly smart people -- chemists, materials scientists, manufacturing gurus, social compliance experts, ESH specialists. My team and I sat through days of toxicology lectures to elevate our understanding of consumer allergies, sensitivities, and other chemical safety issues. I took a special two-week training course called "PS72 Shoe School" in 2000 and learned how to brief, design, spec/develop, cost out, and build an athletic shoe. Those two weeks (one in Oregon, one in Korea and China) will always be a highlight of my life. I can't ever remember learning so much in such a short time.Between 1997 and 2009, in partnership with the staff on the business side, I also papered and negotiated literally billions of dollars in sports marketing deals. My principal sports of concentration were tennis, golf, baseball, and some Olympic sports. I worked on every piece of Nike sports marketing business related to Lance Armstrong for 12 years, including setting up the "LiveStrong" wristband promotion and getting it legally qualified in the 20 states that regulate that kind of fundraising. Last I heard more than 70 million yellow wristbands had been sold. I'm sure it's closer to 100 million now. I worked on Nike's product supply and sponsorship agreements with Ohio State, University of Washington, University of North Carolina System, and other schools. I worked on Nike's deals with scores of athletes. I've been called a bitch by at least two agents representing athletes you've heard of. I also have had very warm relationships with people who represented athletes under contract to Nike.http://www.quora.com/Stephanie-Vardavas/My-Posts/I-just-learned-that-my-friend-Keven-Davis-died-on-Friday-nightIn 2009 Nike had major layoffs after which I was repurposed as a trademark lawyer, a specialty I had last practiced 20 years earlier, at MLB (although at MLB we did licensing and at Nike we did clearance and prosecution [registration] of trademarks). After a few more departmental reorgs I found myself involuntarily retired. I won't say I had no idea about what to do next. Rather, I had too many ideas about what to do next. I started working on a couple of patents, which I'm still working on, but I thought I wanted to get a new job. At first I thought I'd try to get a job in the technology field, which has fascinated me since the first time my friend Jim HendlerWho is James Hendler?first showed me the World Wide Web in 1995.Stephanie V's answer to What was the first website you built, and in what year did you build it?I applied for jobs at [tech startup A], [tech startup B], [tech pioneer], and [tech survivor], got a couple of phone interviews, and that was it. I realized as I scanned the various job listings that nobody wanted to hire a lawyer with my amount of experience. So I knew I was going to have to take charge of my own path from then on. I remembered that ten years earlier I had thought about becoming a mediator after I retired. Now was my chance.I took almost 100 hours of training as a mediator and embarked on a new career. I've also done some consulting in product safety, the work I loved most when I worked for Nike. But none of it felt exactly right. Finally the light bulb went on for me when I hit a million miles on United Airlines and realized I had never owned a carry-on bag that I really liked. I connected with a former Nike colleague who is an expert in materials and a new company, row99.com, was born.In 2011 the Governor of Oregon appointed me to the Oregon Commission for Women, and I was elected Chair in 2012. My service on the Commission has been a great experience so far. My fellow Commissioners are really smart, capable women, and the work we do is important.I'm politically activeStephanie V's answer to What is it like to host a political fundraising dinner at your house?Stephanie V's answer to What is it like to be a delegate at an American presidential nominating convention?and cut my teeth in local politics as a library advocate, with six years on the board of directors and two years as President of the Friends of Multnomah County Library. I was also one of the founding board members of EMERGE Oregon (a 501c4 that trains Democratic women to run for office). I spent Election Day 2008 as a voter protection volunteer at a polling place in Albuquerque. I have absolutely zero ambition to hold elective office myself, and happily neither does Mike. We don't want that kind of life. (That's us with the late Elizabeth Edwards. We spent a day driving her around in June 2007 when she came to Portland to campaign for her husband. I'll always be grateful for the time we spent with her, but if I'd known what a dick he was I would never have supported him, so I guess I'm glad I didn't know, or I would never have met her.)And here we are with Congressman John Lewis, a real honest-to-God hero.Like seemingly 95% of Quorans, I have an idea for a startup. I don't have the technical skills to execute on it but the service would have immediate value to some very big ecommerce companies so I keep telling myself I need to figure out how to find someone to work on it with me and make it happen; I'll be really sad if someone else gets to it before I do. I've been researching prior art at the USPTO to decide whether I should try to get a business process patent to give me some protection while I try to implement it. I'm not a natural born entrepreneur but I've been in the business world for more than 30 years and learned a few things along the way.Random miscellaneous crap about me:I love Jane Austen (author), Star Wars, Leonard Cohen, Elton John, The Beatles (band), and lots of other music, including Baroque Music and Opera. I love Musicals. I am both an Anglophile and a Francophile, although some believe those two things to be mutually exclusive. I love Star Wars (creative franchise). My favorite animal is the Sheep, but I was born in the Year of the Monkey. I love Monty Python and I know I should love Firesign Theatre, but I never got into it.Going to law school at night broke my TV habit. Today I watch very little television, and the only thing I watch live is sports and awards shows like the Oscars, or other kinds of breaking news. On Tivo I watch all three US major network news shows, The Big Bang Theory (TV series), The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. On DVD I recently finished a 19 hour Downton Abbey (TV series) marathon and have dived into the Q&A here.I love Architecture and would have considered becoming an architect if it weren't for all the math. %^>I love the Baltimore Orioles, and have since I was a very little girl. I care about the Yale Bulldogs and have learned to love the Baltimore Ravens almost as much as my father and brother do. In the National League I've always liked the Philadelphia Phillies and the San Francisco Giants.The National Basketball Association (NBA) has never interested me all that much but I do love college hoops (I was raised a fan of the Maryland Terrapins; one of the biggest thrills I had working for ProServ was the opportunity to spend a little time with John Lucas, whom I really loved as a player, who later had terrible drug problems, and who got clean and is now very successful).I have no artistic talent to speak of, but I can take pretty good photos, and I used to be good at sewing. I could make professional looking coats and suits. My sewing skills are now long atrophied. I bought a fancy new electronic sewing machine six years ago and have never used it. I can still hem things by hand and sew on buttons, and I enjoy doing that kind of thing for my husband; it helps me delude myself into feeling domestic.I read widely, often nonfiction, especially Biographies and Memoirs. I do reread Austen (luckily she only wrote six books) at least once every couple of years. I recently did deep dives into Henry James (author) and Edith Wharton, who unaccountably has no Quora topic of her own. I'm reading Anna Karenina (1877 book) now for the first time (shocking, I know, but better late than never).I've been to Christmas luncheon at Manchester United. It felt as if I had stepped into outtakes from Love Actually (2003 movie)In 1975 I borrowed Brooks Robinson's uniform for Halloween. That's a whole other story.There's a chapter about me in the book Baseball Lives, by Mike Bryan, and the part relating to Brooks' uniform was excerpted in Sports Illustrated in April 1989 (the issue that had Tony Mandarich on the cover, I forget the date). George Vecsey also wrote a column about the uniform story the weekend Brooks was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.I've stood 50 meters from the finish line of the Tour de France on the Champs Elysées and cried like a baby when they played the Star Spangled Banner for Lance Armstrong as he mounted the podium.In 1990 I went on morning TV in New York City along with Arthur Ashe to talk about the Mandela merchandising program. It was a huge thrill for me.Stephanie V's answer to What are some of the unique (likely hasn’t been done by another Quora member) experiences of Quora community members?I've sat in the Commissioner's box at the World Series, in the owner's (singular) box at Yankee Stadium, in the owners' (plural) box at Fenway Park, and in the Directors' box at Old Trafford. I sat in front of the Rev. Jesse Jackson and one seat over from Harry Belafonte in the House gallery when Mandela addressed a joint session of Congress in 1990.In October 2011 I traveled to Fort Worth, Texas, where I attended in the same week both the World Championships of the International Gay Rodeo Association and the Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America. I am quite certain I am the only person in the world who did this.I've also got three unfinished novels in my hard drive. Perhaps I will finish one of them someday. I hope I'll pick a good one.