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

[simmonssomer]

Yeah, but what about Phil Weintraub? NY Giants 1943-'44.

Al S.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] fwd: A Chance to Finally Forgive Mom for Throwing Out 
That Card


> 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
>>
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