"We felt it at Rangers when he left here, " said Naismith of his former team-mate.
Or had he left the book here in order to savor the inscription, certain that Lera would never open it?
But we caught up with him shortly before he left his post, and here's what he had to say about the music that kept him moving.
Jule Lopez says right now he's more interested in getting ahead here than trying to change what he left behind.
"We're getting left behind here, " he says.
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So maybe he still is here, maybe he was killed, or maybe he's left.
But he did point out that political parties here from left to right had already come together in recent months on topics like education and labor reform.
In the two and a half years since he left the plant, he's hardly ever come back here.
"He's got a chance to play every day here in left field for us, " Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
And by the time he left office, he was certainly very adversarial with many in the news media here.
"We started talking about the arts as an opportunity for the university within the first few months after I left Brown as provost and came back here as president, " he said to me in his office.
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He may have left established players such as Joe Cole and David Beckham on the bench here with Wednesday's game in Croatia match in mind but it will worry him that their replacements struggled against such unheralded opposition.
Having made 173 runs in the first three innings during the winter series, the left-hander has scored just 13 in the last two Tests and here he sliced rather tamely to gully.
During a nostalgic weekend, Kevin Schwantz was on hand to regale us with the inside story of his final career victory here in 1994, when he had to hold the throttle open down the straights with his left hand - despite a dislocated wrist - just to shake some feeling back into his fractured right hand.
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