Certified Fame

The hero of his own story

Watched the Hero and himself

Appear on screen together:

His friends gasp in pleasure.

Later an old newsreel

Shows Ray Lyman Wilbur

Standing, top hat in hand,

As Herbert Hoover, mentor and friend,

Throws out the first ball

Of a disastrous season.

[Written by Virginia McKinnon Mann in October, 1994. Ray Lyman Wilbur was the third president of Stanford University and 31st United States Secretary of the Interior, according to Wikipedia. I guess Mr. Hoover (31st president of the United States) wasn't much of a ballplayer.]