- He holds the Major League Baseball record for the all-time longest ceremonial first pitch of the season. In 1976, he threw the baseball from the loge level at Dodger Stadium all the way to home plate to the Dodger catcher.
- Peanut vendor at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles.
- His all-time personal record of most tossed peanut bags in a game is 2,400 bags set in 1976 in Dallas, Texas, at Texas Stadium during a Cowboys game. His 3-day all-time record is 6,000 bags set in Louisiana in the SEC Tournament at an LSU basketball game in 1988.
- He has appeared as a guest or just tossing peanuts on "The Tonight Show" four times.
- He has thrown out the ceremonial first pitch of the season twice for the Dodgers, and both were evening games, once in 1976 and once in 1995 to welcome back fans after the 1994 strike. They were the only two night games to open the season in the past 30 years at the stadium and he did the honors both times.
- At age 24, he was filmed as an extra playing a vendor in the 1968 film "The Split" starring Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine and Gene Hackman.
- He has no sense of smell ever since his near fatal military jeep accident in 1969.
- His appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson launched his career and the segment was so hilarious when Carson tried his hand at trick peanut tossing that it ended up on video on "Carson's Comedy Classics."
- Mayor Tom Bradley and Dodger pitcher Don Sutton attended his first wedding.
- His two brothers also worked as stadium vendors alongside him. One of the, Philip, worked with him for 19 years, and even had some trick tossing talent too but didn't want to be the entertainer like his brother.
- He has not only worked Dodger games but worked every L.A. Clipper home game in the Sports Arena, countless USC and UCLA and Rams football games in the Coliseum, hockey games, and boxing matches.
- He has worked nearly 4,000 events. No other vendor is even close.
- In 2004, a book was published about his amazing and moving life story. It's entitled "The Perfect Pitch," written by his nephew Daniel S. Green.
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