Oral History Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, April 20, 1987 Page: 42
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Ruth. A lot of those Yankees were hard-living gentlemen.
Shun's stories were just delightful. He had all these
mementos. They left him their caps, and they left him
baseballs with the famous autographs, and they wrote letters
of thanks to him when they got back to the United States.
There's a famous restaurant in San Francisco--Lefty O'Doul's--
and he idolized Shun because...I guess Lefty came with the
team in those years in a management position or something,
and he remembered. Whenever Shun went to San Francisco,
Lefty's was one place he had to go and have a drink and talk
over the old times.
Thereas one thing that burst an illusion for me, growing
up in the period I did. I always read about and heard about
the Hollywood legend of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Mary Pick-
ford, you know, the great, wonderful marriage of the time.
Shun has a scrapbook--snapshot scrapbook--that, besides
having all the Yankee pictures, has a couple of pages devoted
to trips that used to occur when things would blow up at
PickFair. Douglas Fairbanks would storm out of the house--
out of this relationship--get on a tramp steamer, go to Japan,
pick up Shun, and then they'd go all around Southeast Asia
on the tramp steamer, playing golf. Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
was a great golfer. He and Shun--just the two of them--would
play golf, and this was the way he worked off steam. Eventually,
he would go back to Hollywood. Shun had some tremendous
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Van Nostrand, Stephen E. Oral History Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, April 20, 1987, book, April 20, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306889/m1/44/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.