Every year . . .

[brian1961]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Some of you may have heard this before, but to get to the former Berra home in Montclair, NJ you literally came to a fork in the road. . . .and had to take it.

I know plenty of people who trick o' treated there as kids. For many years Yogi and Carmen handed out baseball cards on Halloween. Great people.

So Yogi and Carmen handed out baseball cards on Halloween, huh?

Hmmmmm.......

I can't resist this one. Imagine, it's Halloween, 1959. The Berras are graciously giving out these baseball cards Yogi got at his Yoo-Hoo Chocolate Drink factory in Carlstadt, NJ. The trick-or-treating kids smile broadly, but when they see the black 'n white cards, they react with a slight wince of disappointment. Even this card of Mickey Mantle with a blank white strip at the bottom leaves them unimpressed. One kid laments, "Oh, that's that card the Yoo-Hoo people were giving out in late spring - early summer when Mickey was supposed to show up to meet kids and sign autographs. They had these black ' n white cards made of Mantle, and whatda'ya know, he don't show. What a rip! I don't want this card!" And the kid unceremoniously throws it on the wet pavement.

Flash forward 62 years, and now any of the desperately few decent Yoo-Hoo Mickey Mantles will bring about $35,000 in scratch----EASILY.

Montclair, New Jersey dreamin', on nice autumn day!

--- Brian Powell