Shawn's Story & Photo's of Kevin In Iceland
1999
On July 24th, 1999, I had a great
time getting to meet Kevin Costner the actor of Field of Dreams, Robin Hood,
Silverado, JFK, Dances with Wolves, The Postman.
He was scheduled to play softball
from 11:00 am to 1 pm. My friend Lance and I showed up at the ball field
around 10:30 am awaiting for Kevin's arrival. Well we were sitting real
close to the 3rd base, hoping that we would get a great picture of Kevin.
Well 11:00 came, no Kevin, so we walked around to the other Bleachers to get on
the top step so we could get a better view of his arrival. Well around
11:05 am we saw the Navy Police escorting his vehicle. He pulled over to
the parking area and got out of his vehicle, and was heading to the ball field,
but he went the other way, my luck that it happened. But anyway, he wasn't
dressed for softball, so he headed back to the vehicle to get dressed.
When he was walking over to his vehicle, I was on the top of the bleacher, and I
said Hi, Mr. Kevin, and he looked up at me and smiled and said hi. I got
some pics thinking that might be the only pics I would get, so I got down to see
if he would sign something for me, well the cops had him pretty surrounded, but
I was only within a foot of him which was really cool.
He went back on the field to play,
in the first inning when he wasn't in the outfield he was signing autographs, so
I got over to the bull pit where he was signing them, I talked to him a little
and he signed my index card that I brought that day. Well everybody else
was like taking there hats off for him to sign, I figure what the heck, so I
took off my Braves hat where he signed my hat, so I figured I have gotten
enough, and went back to where I was orignially at with my friend.
We were cheering him on where he
was playing between the second and third bases. So again he came over
there to sign some autographs, I asked him what he thought of Iceland and he
smiled. Well about a half hour later he came over to shake someones hand
that was about 2 feet from me, so I through out my hand, and so did my friend.
We got to shake his hand, and I told him he was a great actor. I told him
I like him in The Field of Dreams. For someone who had a few hours to
entertain the base, he was a great sport about it. Well when it was over,
he was leaving, I was hoping to get a pic with him, but he got crowded real
quick, so I lost my chance.
But when they were driving
away, I was the last person, that waved at him, he waved back and smiled.
People were pulling out everything you could think of for him to sign, the
really funny thing was a $20 bill, I like Kevin, but not that much to get him to
sign a twenty, People were pulling out Kronur (Icelandic Money) for him to sign,
I think I saw every movie he made that he signed. I tell you this, this
was one of the greatest days that I have witnessed meeting an
actor..
Thanks for reading
this.
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