Love Story: Love Trumps Baseball

Gary Brown has more than 1,000 baseball caps displayed in his garage. Numbered and cataloged by date, place, and his acquisition of it, each one has a story. But the tale of his 60-year marriage to his wife, Noreen, outshines the story of even 1,000 baseball caps. Noreen likes to joke that he picked her up off the street. It was the summer of 1951, she recalled, “I was walking up Division Street with two friends, and he picked us up.” Gary was with a couple buddies who knew the girls and they gave them a ride to Noreen’s home. “I knew the minute I met him, I wasn’t going to let him go,” she said. When asked about that first meeting, Gary said, “I didn’t say anything. I was the shyest guy at Rogers High School”/ Cindy Hval , SR Love Story. More here. (SR photo: Gary & Noreen Brown)

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