[BradH]

Over the holiday break I went through some old boxes and Rubbermaid tubs from the attic and came across many childhood items that I’d forgotten about. The group included pennants that my dad had as a kid in the 1960s and my stuff from the ‘70s and ‘80s.

I started to put the old posters and pennants back in the attic, as many are torn and all of them have pin holes, but then I decided to make better use of them. I put three of the posters (shown) of Mattingly, Yount and Brett on the empty wall of my basement workshop. I always loved the Yount piece and still remember getting it from a sporting goods store owner in the summer of '83 (a year after Yount had helped Milwaukee to the '82 World Series.) The gentleman took it off the wall in his store to make room for newer materials that were arriving for the fall.

I should note that while I actually do some woodwork and home repairs in this workshop, it’s recently become more of an overflow space for recent baseball card or memorabilia purchases that I haven’t yet put away…

Next I will figure out a way to hang some of those old pennants from the ceiling. I figure their dollar value is almost zero, but the memories are priceless. And I can’t really damage them any more than they already are, so why not enjoy them? This is better than keeping them stowed away in the attic.

Anyone else have a "memorabilia recycling" story to share?