| "Do me a favor, live each day to the fullest. Tomorrow isn't promised to anyone." - Kirby Puckett
The memorials were numerous and varied, but what was truly amazing was the number of items left by youngsters, people many of whom were not even born yet when Kirby and the Twins won their last World Series in 1991. These tokens were fashioned with crayons on cardboard or even just small pieces of paper with something crudely jotted down. Everyone just had to make known how they felt about Kirby. One young man, approximately 8 years old commented to a news crew how he had met Kirby courtside at a Timberwolves’ game. He said that Kirby Puckett had taken the time to talk to him like a person, “something you don’t see athletes do these days anymore.” (Kirby Puckett was cremated and his ASHES are in the possession of a family member)
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Kirby Puckett
certainly wasn't the first, nor will he be the last, to speak
these words. He is one of the very few, however, who actually lived
their entire life by that credo. He really didn’t even need to
speak the words. Anyone who had ever met him, or had just seen him
play, knew that was how he lived. Kirby Puckett was never without
that huge, genuine grin. He didn’t look or act like your typical
professional athlete. He was doing something that he loved, that he
had always dreamed of doing, and never took it for granted. It was
a childlike enthusiasm that drew everyone to him and when he passed
away it was what drew thousands to the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome
in Minneapolis to leave memorials in his honor. 
