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Ok baseball fans, here's an interesting question.
With all the serious talk that's been going on, I thought a light hearted topic might be fun. Anticipate silliness, and some eye rolls, but participate if you dare.
You are friends with Dr. Emmett Brown (yes, I realize he is a fictional character. Bear with me). After the rousing success of the DeLorean time machine, "Doc" has decided to give time travel another go, only this time, no Libyans will be involved. There will be no cool cars, no 88 miles per hour, or one-point-twenty-one jiggawatts. Just pure, unadulterated time travel. Seriously, though. Would you let this man send you back in time? The new time machine has one limitation. Because of power limitations ("Doc" spent most of his family's fortune, after all), you can only go back in time for ten minutes before you need to come home. As baseball fans, and baseball card collectors, what would you choose to do with your ten minutes? Clearly, ten minutes is not enough time to take in a game. You might be able to locate an old store with baseball cards for sale, though.... Woolworths circa 1952? Yes, please! Maybe instead you'd use your ten minutes to change something that happened in the past: "Roberto, don't get in that plane." or... "Hey Fred, make sure to touch second before running off the field." or... "Mr. Branca, maybe you should avoid throwing Bobby any curve balls today." or... "Hey, Thurman, your wife called. You'll have to practice landings another day." or... "Mick, did you know there's a sprinkler head in left center field? How would you use your ten minutes?
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I would travel all the way back to 2012, to see how those "Black Swamp" cards were replicated.Dave.
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My first thought is that I would go back to 1918 and shoot Chick Gandil before he ever thought of throwing the 1919 World Series.
But on second thought, baseball needed a wake up call to bring in Commissioner Landis to clean up the sport, so maybe that's not such a good idea. |
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You could shoot the old Roman, but I'm not sure if he could be killed. Like the T-1000 terminator.
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That's easy!!! October 5, 1921 at the Polo Grounds for the 1921 World Series to see my Great Great Uncle Elmer Miller get the first ever Yankee hit in a World Series.
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I would go back to see Ty Cobb play. Or Ruth, Gehrig or.... you get the idea.
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Yeah! This! To see Cobb! I think I remember reading about some game where Cobb and Kid Elberfeld went at it, throughout the game and in the parking lot after. Now THAT would be something! Get The Peach to sign a couple of green portrait/ty cobb backs for ya!
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I'd go to Shoeless Joe's liquor store and try to have him explain to me-in 10 minutes-what really happened in the 1919 Series
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I could think of a lot of games, but probably the one that annoyed me the most was the Armando Galarraga 28 out perfect game. I'd definitely hand Jim Joyce a pair of glasses and explain to him how to tell whose foot touches a bag first. It needs to be repeated often that since that game, Galarraga has a 5-16 career record and he spent this entire past season in AAA. He had a 21-18 career record at the time. I still get mad watching that replay.
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Not sure what would top my list, but one card related possibility would be to travel back to the summer of 1888, downtown Detroit, Woodward Ave, right outside the several prevalent cigar and cigarette stores. I'd take my 1887 Coin collection and buy up all the 1888 Old Judge cigarettes they had in hopes of landing a few Detroits. The non-Detroits would be pretty cool as well (maybe some Maroons, Brewers, Omahogs, Prohibitionists, etc). Maybe I'd even get lucky and find the Anson in Uniform or Deacon White portrait "chase card"
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I'd go back about 25 years and buy some shares of Cisco, Microsoft and Apple. I would have enough money to buy any cardboard at today's prices.
Baseball related, I would go back about 11 months and explain the infield fly rule to a couple of umps before a one game playoff. Last edited by vintagecpa; 09-07-2013 at 12:07 PM. |
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I would go back to the day yahoo came out as an IPO, and STOP my self from selling it 10 min after I bought it. I made $1000 in 10 min....UGH what a fool. I still keep the bought receipt in my card collection cabinet to remind my self of the idiocy.
Anyway - if we aren't talking about making money....... My other option would be to go back to that Babe Ruth called shot game and see what really happened.
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Great topic...
I've just finished reading a bunch of great time travel stories (Stephen King's excellent "11/22/63" and Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveller's Wife" and Kate Atkinson's "Life After Life" and Octavia Butler's "Kindred"... highly recommended all!) ...
First of all: Need WAY more than 10 minutes!!!!! How about an hour? Or a Day? (so we could take in an actual game??!!!! But your thread, your rules... On the serious front (Baseball-wise only): Yeah... Stop Clemente and others from getting on that plane... or distract Carl Mays or Ray Chapman... On the lighter side: Visiting that card store you pictured with a wad of cash... or (even better) a T206 factory with a wad of cash and a "I Love Honus!" sign.
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Pretty easy, I'd go back to 1970 and play catch with my dad
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As far as Yahoo's IPO. Ouch. The IPO price was $24.50, and it's at $28.17 now. But it's also split like 5 times. Quote:
Chapman's beaning did cross my mind. That was a tragedy Two others crossed my mind. Tony Conigliaro and Herb Score. That's a great idea, Dave Every time I see the end of Field of Dreams, I can't help but tear up. Thankfully for me, my dad is still with me. But I can't play baseball anymore because of physical limitations. I might go back in time to when I wasn't so dinged up, and throw it around with him again. Great answers so far, everybody! Keep up the creativity!
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Wow, how could I choose anything else?
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I would to back and tell Mantle not to run after the ball, let DiMaggio only go for it, that there is a drain out there in that outfield!!!
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Nice memories I'm sure. For me, should have went to see my dad before he passed away. Long story behind that, but I should not have waited.
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The way I deal with that is, I know that he knows what is in my heart. I am sure your dad knows what is in your heart. |
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I would hand Billy Sianis a can of Glade on his way into the stadium.
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2003 NLCS, 8th inning. "Hey guys, the next pitch is getting hit this way. Stand back and let Alou make the catch. That goes double for you, Bartman."
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ooh... two more things:
1. Appear at the Polo Grounds in 1951 in the exact seat (with glove) to catch Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard Round The World. I'd hold the ball up, smile at Pafko and take in the joy... and come home with an amazing souvenir to top it all off! 2. Kill the Rally Monkey in 2002.
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+one million billion trillion zillion
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I'll pay Doc to let you go back twice. Then you can smack Steve Bartman before that foul ball comes close to him. It might be a bit of overkill with the curse taken care of, but one can never be too sure. I would like to see you and Cubbie fanatics everywhere have a chance to gather around State Street and Michigan Avenue to celebrate a Series win! Good peeps in Chicago, and they've stayed loyal through a lot of bad years. Gotta respect that!
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I would really love to see the Cubs get back to the Series. I want the Brewers to get there, too, but the diehard Cubbie fans deserve it more. Don, I wish I could make this happen for you. What a thrill that would be, huh?
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Not a big BB fan, so an old cardboard travel it would be.
I'd love to be on the print shop floor during the T206s. Take it all in, uncut sheets, the plates, presses. Specifically to see the proofs being made, or brown OM/Lenox ink switch or the ghost back sheets being printed. Simple pleasures.
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Deja vu all over again!!!
Bill,
I seem to recall a thread where we talked about jumping in the Delorean and going back in time for a baseball card shopping spree. I talked about the obvious issues of time travel, i.e. not having the currency of the time period nor the proper clothing, which would make us stand out like a sore thumb to the people back in that time period. We would probably look like alien spacemen to them! Let's assume that as we are transported back in time our cloths and money magically change to that of our target destination, which for me would be New York city during the Spring of 1909. Ten minutes is not a lot of time but I'd spend my time buying up all the cigarette packs I could. Oh and why Spring? Something to do with a certain player's card whose production was cut short that year.
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I remember it, too. The first thread was more geared towards going back in time, and seeing something you'd enjoy (hence enough time to watch a game, or a series). This is more geared towards going back in time to change something. Ten minutes isn't enough time to catch even one good at bat, but it would be enough time to prevent somebody like Roberto Clemente from getting on a plane that would kill him. It would also be enough time to make sure that Fred Merkle's name was not forever associated with a base running blunder. The two discussions are similar, but the intent behind the time travel is different. However, I suppose if you had a Delorean, you could accomplish both. But all it would take is catching one game watching Ty Cobb race around the bases for me to forget every other thing I needed to accomplish.
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We'd all be anachronisms. We wouldn't belong. Best case you could do is get a job working in a store for packs of tobacco that have baseball cards in them in lieu of pay, and even then, you'd need weeks to accumulate anything real. It'd be like arguing how you could stop the Titanic from sinking. You first have to explain overcoming the crew even listening to you in the first place. You could also trigger a collecting boom, so that would make old material way more available and less valuable--'hey, that guy is hoarding these baseball cards, maybe we should too.'.
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Really, more than anything, this discussions is meant to offer a change of pace. It's more to glean what things members wish they could change from the past than to consider how successful they would be in doing so.
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C'mon Cubs fans, Moises Alou has admitted he couldn't have caught the ball anyway.
I'm still pissed that Bud Selig didn't go back and change Gallarraga's game to a perfect game after the fact. It wouldn't have set any kind of crazy precedent, he could have said "the only precedent I'm setting is to correct an egregious error on the final out of a perfect game. If it ever comes up again, I'll do the same thing again." NOBODY would have been mad about that and NOBODY would have tried to get stuff changed because a "precedent" had been set. GRRR. For me, I'd probably go back to the summer of 1997 and somehow get a different limo driver for the Red Wings. |
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