You have one day and two 1888 Morgan's......

[Troy Kirk]

I'd go to Coney Island in the summer of 1888. I'd hire 3 10-year-old boys to bring me back as many cigarette cards as they could beg off the smokers for 50 cents each for the day. Whichever boy brought me the most by the end of the day would get an extra 50 cents.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by Troy Kirk

I'd go to Coney Island in the summer of 1888. I'd hire 3 10-year-old boys to bring me back as many cigarette cards as they could beg off the smokers for 50 cents each for the day. Whichever boy brought me the most by the end of the day would get an extra 50 cents.

+1

Very original thinking

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[clydepepper]

I'd purchase several tickets to the final game of the 1945 season at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis.

I'll take the first ticket and give the rest to as many kids as I could talk into sitting in the left-field stands and retrieve the grand-slam ball hit by Hank Greenberg in the 9th Inning to win the game 6-3.

Attendance for this one was only 5,582 so there would be plenty of room to roam around and grab it.

Technically, the Tigers had clinched the day before against the Indians, but this was a better game to watch.

I would also get to see Virgil Trucks start and give way to Hal Newhouser, who would get the victory, in the sixth.

Former Yankee pitcher George Pipgras was the home-plate ump and the Browns' Pete Gray batted once and scored a run in this wonderful ending to the season.


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[alaskapaul3]

last ball game in 1916 vs Mordecai Brown for 50 cents, then take the other $1.50 to the bank to trade in for 6 of those new-fangled 1916 Standing Liberty Quarters.

[Jobu]

I might find King Kelly and his White Sox pals at the pub (after watching them play of course), introduce myself by buying a round, and then see where the night took us.

[Chris-Counts]

I'd go back to the start of the 1919 World Series in Cincinnati. I'd live off one of the dollars (I wonder what a 1919 hot dog would taste like?), and bet the other one of the Reds to win Game 1. The odds were 5 to 1 for the White Sox, which would pay me enough to make some more bets, and ultimately make a living off it (Hello Indians in '20, and Giants in '21!). I'd have enough pocket change pick up a few thousand T206s in nice shape, which were probably close to worthless at the time. I'd have to wait a while for gum cards to be invented, but I'd have a glorious time getting in on the ground floor of the Roaring '20s.

[Yoda]

Perhaps a bleacher seat to watch a shaky 'Old Pete' Grover Alexander shuffle in from the bullpen and strike out the Yankees' murderers row to save the 1926 World Series for the Cardinals. That was a baseball moment.