[78-L] fwd: A Chance to Finally Forgive Mom for Throwing Out ThatCard

[martha]

  I envy anyone who has or had parental support for his/her hobby.  Mine 
condemned (in no uncertain terms) my interest in good music, old records, 
and acoustic phonos as "a waste of money on JUNK".  All garbage, to them.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] fwd: A Chance to Finally Forgive Mom for Throwing Out 
ThatCard


> David Lennick wrote:
>> (A chance to forgive split infinitives as well. Not OT..Mantle made one 
>> 78. dl)
>>
>
> So did Joe DiMaggio, Pee Wee Reece, Babe Ruth, Lou Gerhig, etc.
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/sports/baseball/16topps.html
>> February 16, 2010
>> A Chance to Finally Forgive Mom for Throwing Out That Card
>> By RICHARD SANDOMIR
>> For nearly as long as kids, mostly boys, have collected baseball cards, 
>> mothers
>> have figured as the culprits in tossing out boxes or drawers full of 
>> those
>> pieces of cardboard.
>>
> My mom did not throw out my cards.  I still have two large cartons of
> them, including an Enrico Caruso card.  However she did throw out the
> carton of my Long Player, Jazz 'n' Pops, and earliest Schwanns from
> 58-60.  But I now do have an almost complete set of Long Player and Jazz
> 'n' Pops in bound volumes (only missing first partial year), and have at
> least one Schwann from every year in the early 50s and am maybe 80%
> complete after 1960.