Moonlight Graham

glynparson · #1 07-09-2023, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Collecting is all about irrational attachments to material things. I don't see how an obsession with chasing a Moonlight Graham card is any different that chasing Eddie Plank or King Kelly or 1000s of other players who have no larger cultural significance today. Something speaks you or it doesn't. To chase tobacco cards of obscure players and then obscure backs of tobacco cards of obscure players makes no more "sense" to me than trying to chase a phone book from Chisholm, MN that has Graham listed in it.

You really can�t grasp someone being motivated by fact over fiction? This right here is what�s wrong with the world today. Fiction is given as much weight as fact. What freaking lunacy.

Snapolit1 · #2 07-09-2023, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by glynparson

You really can’t grasp someone being motivated by fact over fiction? This right here is what’s wrong with the world today. Fiction is given as much weight as fact. What freaking lunacy.

Ha. That’s gold. My views on collecting baseball cards just captured everything wrong with the world. In a few lines. Touch�. Love it. Not sure I’ve ever been so proud of myself.

jingram058 · #3 07-09-2023, 02:11 PM

Uhhh...totally contrived piece here, but since we're on the subject of fantasy vs reality, here is the only "Moonlight" Graham piece I could afford.

redauto5 · #4 07-09-2023, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by glynparson

You really can�t grasp someone being motivated by fact over fiction? This right here is what�s wrong with the world today. Fiction is given as much weight as fact. What freaking lunacy.

The Fact that fiction can paint broader brush strokes of Truth in the human soul than Fact, as I'm sure you would describe it, can - is why myth exists. I wouldn't want to live in a world bereft of all the beautiful colors of imagination, myth and transcendent truth. But go ahead, by all means, enjoy your black and white-dom.

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Snapolit1 · #5 07-09-2023, 08:04 PM

Well said.

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Originally Posted by redauto5

The Fact that fiction can paint broader brush strokes of Truth in the human soul than Fact, as I'm sure you would describe it, can - is why myth exists. I wouldn't want to live in a world bereft of all the beautiful colors of imagination, myth and transcendent truth. But go ahead, by all means, enjoy your black and white-dom.

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