YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT KID!!!!

 

                           With Christmas in about 16 days away I wanted to share with you a story of the person shown in the picture with yours truly. This is actor Scott Schwartz he was in Chicago (Rosemont) at The National Sports Card Convention in 2021. This is where next year's National show will be located. Now I had met Scott 2 years prior to this photo again at the same show. He is better known as Flick in the 1983 Holiday classic film known as The Christmas Story.

                          This is Scott in his famous role where he is the kid that gets his tongue stuck supposedly to the metal pole. Whenever I show people his picture they think he's Ralphie & I have to remind them no he's the one that gets his tongue stuck & then they are like oh that's him. Yes that's him alright compared to me hes a short little guy, I am at 6'4" he's at 5'2".  During my first encounter with him I was shocked to learn other than being in The Christmas Story  he was also in the movie called The Toy with 2 comedic legends Jackie Gleason & Richard Prior, as well the movie Kidco where he was a started a kid starting his own entrepreneur business but that wasn't the shocking part the shocker he told me that he was in adult films. 

                      Yes the guy did adult films so we fast forward to 2021 when I was with my friend Dave from Wisconsin who was attending his first National that day & when we bumped into Scott at his booth I told him to ask Scott if he was in adult films & Dave was shocked as well. Now Scott wasn't the only non-sports person whom I have met at a National I was lucky to meet Lorenzo Lamas (Renegade) 1 year along with Penny Marshall (Laverne & Shirley). Lorenzo was nice to talk to even though I had to keep my mother from drooling over him as for Penny Marshall she was very rude even though I said thanks for making the movie A League of Their Own. Later that same day my mother after meeting Lorenzo saw someone being escorted from the show that being O.J. Simpson. 

Anyways I like to hear what is your favorite part of The Christmas Story is. Also if I run into Scott next summer should I mentioned that I talked about him around the holidays on my blog. Until then I am reminded of Roger Hornsby talking about signing autographs "Any Ballplayer who doesn't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American, He's a Communist."