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26 Morristown Magazine about which item on display is the most historic, but does Pack have a favorite? “I get asked that a lot, I usua- lly tell people, ‘No. I’ve got more like a Top 5 or a Top 10’ because I don’t want to give too much favor to one particular item. It would be easy to say the Babe Ruth ho- merun ball, but there’s a lot stuff, too. And some is underappreciated that I have a fondness for. “I love those back stories, espe- cially ones that aren’t famous.” One of the “not famous” stories comes with a connection to Mo- rristown. In 1959, a hot-shot pros- pect from California named Ken Hubbs passed up a football scho- larship to Notre Dame and a bas- ketball scholarship to play basket- ball for John Wooden at UCLA to sign with the Chicago Cubs who Dwier Brown - who played John Kinsella - Ray Kinsella’s father in ‘Field of Dreams’ speaks at the museum.