Simon buys 28 pairs of shoes

From the same Trib notebook:

First baseman Randall Simon hosted two teams, the Monarchs and Crawfords, from Pittsburgh's RBI youth league program. He bought Adidas spikes (the same brand he wears) for 28 players. He also purchased tickets to last night's game for the teams and signed autographs for the players.

Simon is the slowest man in pro baseball. Do they really want his shoes?

Just kidding. It was a classy thing to do.