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Originally Posted by almostdone
My dad was born in 42 and while he has always been a big baseball fan he said he never really collected cards as a kid out side of a few random packs. The thing is every time he looks at my collection, which is displayed chronological, he always pauses when he sees the 56 Topps cards and says "there is something oddly familiar about these". Makes me hope maybe he will find a few cards tucked away somewhere. I would absolutely love to have a few cards I knew he pulled from a pack.
A few years ago he gave me his high school baseball glove and ball signed by his teammates. I would build a display for it and his cards and it would be the new center piece of my collection.
As a side note, and little plug to a great friend and fellow net54 member, campyfan39 (hi Chris) wrote a book called "Buying Back Dad's Cards" which tells the familiar story a boy, Chris' father, whose cards got thrown out only to be slowly required over decades by him and his son. Great book for a collector who has a family connection to collecting.
Drew
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My Father was born in 1939 and in all honesty, other than a few cards lighting up the memory train for him, he really doesn't recall purchasing them.
We have talked and talked trying to piece things together (just recently, and quite the memory for a 77 yr old!) but he honestly doesn't know where they came from if he didn't buy them himself?
He remembers receiving his Beehive hockey cards from a employer friend and purchasing his own once he received them, but the 52's escape him.
We/he concluded, there is a good chance he received them from his Uncle Sam, (seen here in this pic of the 58 WS with Mickey Mantle) but even then, I think he is just trying to put an end to the puzzle?
Not that I am trying to replace my Father's lost cards, but rather add to the collection he gave me as a way of dedicating/thanking him for them, I think the book would be a great read as I am sure some similarities exist.
08-29-2016, 06:45 PM
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