Family Cards

Casey2296 · #1 10-21-2020, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Seven

My maternal Grandfather collected when he was a kid. He was the son of Italian Immigrants in New York, was obsessed with Tony Lazzeri and later Joe D. I don't know what his collection entailed, I would imagine it included a lot of Yankees, he went into the service during WWII and his mother got rid of them.

Similar story with my paternal Grandfather. He was more of a comic book guy though. Kept all his stuff in a drawer, went off to Korea, his mother threw them away. He told me his favorite comic she got rid of was the one with Batman's first appearance aka Detective Comics No. 27, which just went for a cool Million.

Safe to say, I wish I had a time machine.

Safe to say, tidying up has a financial cost...

itjclarke · #2 10-22-2020, 02:32 AM

My dad's cards (likely late 40s and early 50s) didn't survive his mom after he went to college and then the Air Force, but this ball made it.
Mantle ball.jpg
Mantle ball 4.jpg

He got this in 1950, when Mickey Mantle's Joplin team was visiting my dad's hometown Enid Giants. He was 13 at the time and idolized Mantle. The other sigs are a combination of Enid and Joplin players he got that day or at other games that year.

Leon · #3 10-23-2020, 11:37 AM

Don't have any passed down to me or from when I was a kid. I do have some cards from original owner collections and those are cool.. And pedigreed cards from famous collectors are great.

t206fanatic · #4 10-23-2020, 01:21 PM

I agree Leon. I didn't have any cards passed down to me, but owning some from famous collectors is the next best thing.

riggs336 · #5 10-23-2020, 02:02 PM

My grandfather was born in 1856. Unfortunately he never smoked pre-rolls or he could have picked up some nice cards before he died in 1944. Oh well, he did leave my Dad some nice silver dollars which have been in a deposit box for 40 years.

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