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

[Michael Biel]

martha wrote:
>   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.
>   

I wouldn't say it was TOTAL support!  I can still hear my mother saying 
"Oh Michael, when are you going to get RID of this stuff??"  But she did 
pay for my warehouse when I moved back to New Jersey (so the overflow 
wouldn't end up in her house!) However she let me take over her basement 
to finish writing my Ph.D. dissertation.  And she even was the typist of 
it!   There was one shelving unit with my 16mm films in her living room, 
which was handy when the FBI came to check out my film collection.  
Really. 

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>
>   
>> 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.
>>