Luis Tiant when he was an active player taking 'IF practice" doing the ole in the '70's. He came over to the 3B boxes to smooze & sign autographs. My buddy and I complimented him on his defense. He winked and signed the balls we bought at Fenway (and foolishly played with). More recently at his restaurant, repeated the story about IF practice, he said "That's why I love Boston".
Doug Mirabelli who was helping to sell Sox wives cookbooks for charity, if you bought a cookbook he signed. I have that one. Nice guy and he wife was very pleasant too.