New York Yankees Hat

 

July 20, 2019 I attended the funeral of a dear friend.  Brother Bob Humphreys (1934-2019) was 85 years old and had been a pastor/missionary for many years.  Brother Bob had a great personality and was loved by everyone.  Brother Bob had a New York Yankees baseball hat he wore everywhere that he went.  When asked about the hat, he would tell the story of Micky Mantle and Bobby Richardson, two famous Yankee ball players.  Theirs was an unusual friendship.  Micky Mantle was a hard-living, hard-drinking superhero for the Yankees and Bobby Richardson was a clean-living homebody churchgoer who played second base for the Yankees.  After liver failure, a liver transplant, and liver cancer, Mickey Mantle was in the hospital dying.  Bobby visited Mickey in the hospital, once again sharing Bible verses with him.  Mickey Mantle trusted Christ as his Savior only days before his death in 1995.  Brother Bob Humphreys told that story hundreds of times sharing the Gospel with hundreds of folk.  “Thank you, Brother Bob, for being a faithful witness.  Thank you for the great example that you were.  Enjoy your heavenly reward.”  Psalm 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.”