I admit, I never heard of Dick Groat before working for The Meadville Tribune and photographing the annual sports banquet where Groat is an annual speaker. Groat played on world series championship teams that beat the Yankees twice. That alone is a great thing. But he was also a college basketball player and one year while playing for Duke he led the nation in scoring and assists. This is nearly impossible accomplishment. I would 've said impossible instead of nearly impossible if it weren't for the fact that he did it. I like this photograph of Groat that I took last night because of how he emerges from the blurred foreground which is from the hulking figure of Olympic Gold medalist Bruce Baumgartner who was also a guest speaker.I'm not celebrity chaser or even one who gets excited around famous people, Dick Groat is just a nice man and I've enjoyed taking his photograph---and I guess, despite all his accomplishments, his fame isn't quite like Mickey Mantle or Michael Jordan....but I'd still rather photograph him over the more famous. Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer