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

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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. 

True, but Mantle was mentioned in the article (didn't catch other names but I 
was just skimming it).

>> 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.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
>