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Old 11-22-2019, 03:57 PM
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Default Show a Card that Signifies Your Personal Love of Baseball...

...and explain why.

I was looking on ebay last night and ran across a 1974 Seaver card, and man did it bring back great childhood memories...so what the heck, let's start a thread.

As a little kid in Queens, caught up in the fervor of Willie Mays' retirement (and, more importantly, my dad regaling us with his stories of the Say Hey Kid on the NY Giants back in the day) as my beloved Mets got themselves into the sun-marred World Series games in Oakland (close to where I live now, and I can tell you THE SUN NEVER STOPS SCORCHING EVERYTHING), 1973 was a tremendous season. So when the new baseball cards 'finally' started showing up at the local drugstore early in 1974, you felt like an orange and blue clad king when you pulled a Tom Terrific from a pack!! A magically cool horizontal shot with Seaver hurling one in the afternoon sun at Shea as John Milner and a packed house look on??? This says I love baseball to me!!!

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(If anyone cares, card is just a screen grab.)

So, show a card and tell us a story...
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