The Term Pre War Card

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Posted By: joe brennan

After watching "Saving Private Ryan" for about the 7th time the other night the term Pre War Card (from here on PWC) came to mind.
Now I'm not getting up on a soap box but mearly sharing what came to mind and would like to share it with this board.
We use this term PWC and it means we collect cardboard from before 1941.
What hit me was why we can collect them. It is because of the brave young men who died on the beaches and every where else so we could have the freedom to persue a pastime.
I am well familar with WWII as I am a history buff so the sights of war are not new to me, just connecting BB cards and the term PWC's is.
How nonchalantly we throw around the term and until the other night I never gave it any thought of how lucky we are to be able to collect pieces of cardboard because we are a free nation.
I will never use the term PWC's again w/o thinking of the 1000's of white crosses in Europe filled with our young men that never had the chances we have.
Now, when we have a thread with ranting, bickering, name calling arguing, think about this post and concider how really trivial it is in the big picture.
To the young men from WWII, thanks for the cards.

Joe Brennan

A scared man can't gamble and a jealous man can't work.

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Posted By: David Smith

Just think of all the 10 year-old boys in 1933, listening to baseball on the radio and pestering their parents for money to buy Goudey gum and the cards that came im the wrappers. Then, just 8 or 9 years later, those same boys going overseas and getting killed.

How many Goudeys and Diamond Stars are still around because of grieving parents saving their sons' cards as a way to remember them??

I have thought about this a few times because an old time collector once told me he thought a great many cards were lost do to the paper drives. I thought a lot were probably saved because of the memories the cards provided.

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Posted By: Tom Hines

Baseball was with many of them that fought. My father was in the Navy during WWII and he often told stories about listening to some of the great moments in the game from the ship's system. I loved to hear the stories of Johnny Vandemeer's back to back in '39 and even of "Little" Eddie Gaidel with the Browns. Baseball was a break away from the horros of war. To all of them (the ones that never returned and those that came back), a very heart felt "Thank you" is the least I can say. I love to talk baseball and history and when those two come together in a Veteran; let the beer be cold, the sky be clear and hold all of my calls!

Tom