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Baseball

Dave in VA

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3. You too?

Reply to marble falls (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 11, 2019, 03:16 PM

Dec 2019

I had about 25 shoe boxes full of 1950s and 1960s baseball cards I had collected from chewing a ton of very bad bubble gum. Went away to college, came home for winter break and THEY WERE GONE!!!!!

Brother informed me that she gave them to the church to sell in a yard sale!!!!!!!

She said she needed the storage space for some new bathroom towels!

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July 19, 1960 [View all] kairos12 Dec 2019 OP

Didn't he once throw around 250 pitches in a game once? CaptYossarian Dec 2019 #1

He threw 227 pitches 02 July, 1962, but it took a whopping sixteen innings Brother Buzz Dec 2019 #10

Today, he'd make more than $35 mil/year. CaptYossarian Dec 2019 #11

The dude was a stud, pitching full games on a four day rotation Brother Buzz Dec 2019 #12

I was 11 and I had his card. My mother threw them all away. Still not quite over it ... marble falls Dec 2019 #2

You too? Dave in VA Dec 2019 #3

Yep. Same thing. It was still my "room" but other than the furniture, there was nothing mine in ... marble falls Dec 2019 #4

Sorry to hear that. At least there is some solace in that baseball cards have... brush Dec 2019 #5

My mother-in-law threw out murielm99 Dec 2019 #6

At least my mom finally got it, did his mom ever get it? marble falls Dec 2019 #7

Yes, she got it. murielm99 Dec 2019 #8

At least she did, love her anyways! marble falls Dec 2019 #9