Don Zimmer in 2007. (Chris O’Meara/AP)

This is so beautiful. Don Zimmer’s wife, Soot, kept scrapbooks detailing every single day of his 66-year career in Major League Baseball. And now that the Tampa Bay Rays are retiring the late coach’s number, she’s still adding clips to her final scrapbook.

From the Tampa Bay Times:

The last scrapbook has lots of blank pages. It ends on the first day of January, with the Boston Globe’s Year in Review. “Gone but not forgotten,” the headline says. The full-page photo is of her husband wearing his Red Sox uniform, smiling sideways in the sun. Since then, no newspaper had printed his name. At least not that Soot Zimmer has seen. After seven decades, she thought her scrapbooking days were done.

Then someone from the Tampa Bay Rays called. The team was going to retire her husband’s number — 66, the number of years Don Zimmer had been in professional baseball, longer than anyone else. They were going to hang his jersey at the top of Tropicana Field. Would she come to the ceremony on opening day?…

She flipped to the empty back. “Good thing there’s still room in here,” she said. “I’m 84. Too old to start a new scrapbook.”

Read the whole feature from the Tampa Bay Times, which details the Zimmers’ relationship dating back to their high-school days in Ohio in the late 1940s. You might want to grab a couple of tissues first.