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Old 06-01-2005, 12:39 PM
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Posted By: Marc S.

His collection was primarily stored in his basement. His very high dollar cards were in bank vault storage - but most everything else was in his basement. He did have some HOF'ers windowvane on his roof, though - I remember that. The bottom of his pool was adorned with a Yankees logo. He had one closet in his basement that had a computerized motor rack [like at a dry cleaner] with all of his HOF jerseys in there.

His baseball card sets were primarily in pages stored on one massive wall - page after page after hundreds of pages. He had most of his stuff "accessible". E.G. if you were a guest in his home, nothing was behind glass. This included his Joe Jackson signed ball, all of his autographed balls, and so much other stuff. My favorite memory of visiting his house was actually having Barry take Black Betsy off of a bat rack on the ceiling and handing it to me to swing. He was such a fun and happy guy - a true collector that really loved much about the hobby.

~ms

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