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Originally Posted by BillP
Also 1967 Mike Shannon #605, tough for me to find centered.
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My God! THAT is one card I remember vividly having as a kid. We didn't have a big league team in Memphis. After Russwood Park burned in 1960, we didn't even have a minor league team until the Blues started up in 1969. Every one of my pals and me loved the Cardinals; they were only 300 miles away, and we had their games on TV on Sunday, and KMOX on the radio came in loud and clear at night until WMPS started carrying Cardinals games. So we obsessed over Memphis' own Tim McCarver, not Mickey Mantle, and all the other Cardinals players. For whatever reason, Mike Shannon was one of my favorites. Maybe because he had played for the Memphis Chicks at Russwood before moving up. And I vividly remember him calling games when he retired. This 1967 Topps card of his really stands out. Just like the one I had years ago, the copy I have all these years later is also way OC!!!