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30 Year Run Comes To An End
Posted By: Ed McCollum
I started collecting baseball cards in 1972. My grandfather bought me a pack of cards at the local Kroger store, and even though I couln't chew the gum (I had been diagnosed with diabetes earlier that year), I insisted that he buy me a pack so I could see what they looked like. I was hooked. |
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Posted By: Keith O'Leary
Loved it Ed, and can't agree with you any more. Best of luck with the "T"s. |
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30 Year Run Comes To An End
Posted By: Jaime Leiderman
Thanks for sharing your story. |
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30 Year Run Comes To An End
Posted By: Julie Vognar
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30 Year Run Comes To An End
Posted By: leon
Very well put. I can't tell ya how many times people talk baseball at the office and I "act" mildly interested. Spoiled brats. Sour grapes? Not really, although a lot of us probably had high hopes at sometime in our past of being a sports star. Oh well...here's to getting older.....regards all.... |
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Posted By: Todd (nolemmings)
Sorry Ed, I refuse to lay this all (or even most of it) at the feet of the players. I too stopped collecting current sets about 10 years ago, mostly because of cost but also because of the proliferation of cards on the market and the gimmicks (parallel sets, etc). Don't forget MLB makes big licensing bucks in the sale of cards, if it's the price that's bothering you. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
but I'm sure never going to forget Jeter's cross-the-diamond-and-flip-to-the-catcher to tag out Giambi last year, or Gibson's limp-off home run in 1988. hey, there's plenty of good baseball going on. You don't have to buy all the cards, or any of them. 1) you wouldn't have enough money for vintage stuff and 2) you wouldn't have enough money for dinner! |
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