Your Greatest Hobby Experience?
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What is your greatest hobby experience?
mine is having the chance to work with Bob Feller, and having a friendship with him. he has done a few private signing with me, and we chat on teh phone every once in a while.
He has a reputation for being very utspoken, but he is a truly kind man.. with a lot of great stories.
mine is having the chance to work with Bob Feller, and having a friendship with him. he has done a few private signing with me, and we chat on teh phone every once in a while.
He has a reputation for being very utspoken, but he is a truly kind man.. with a lot of great stories.
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pulling a couple of Detroit Tigers (Chet lemon & Trammell) out of my very first wax pack (84 TOPPS),
in a time when I didnt know about CORNERS, CENTERING, EDGES & SURFACE ... TRIMMING ...RESEALED BOXES
those were the days
*** where are my meds ? ***
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...lay some saran wrap over your cards first
I will also second the comment about Bob Feller. We travel to his hometown museum alot and have visited with Bob multiple times. One of my prized possessions is a 8x10 photo I took of my son sitting on Bob's lap that he later signed for us.
They really don't stand up to the memories of hanging out with my friends as a kid doing all the card stuff that 7-12 year olds do. No matter how insignificant the stuff we did was it kept us out of trouble and we are better off for it now. We are all relatively sucessful with families and such. Not many can say that about the "entire group" that they grew up with.
he was very nice in person. Too bad he couldn't keep his pants on.
I don't remember anything I bought or sold that day, but on the rare occasion that I go to a show now I recall those heady days and I know exactly what we've all lost.
The president of the company knew of my love for the game and of my extensive vintage Mickey Mantle card collection and chose me to represent our company by throwing out the first pitch of the game and to attend the luncheon the next day, that we also sponsored.
The pitch went well; I at least made it to the plate; but the best part was getting to eat lunch the next day seated next to Mickey Mantle.
George Kell was seated on my left, Mick on my right, Gene Mauch directly across from me, and Jim O'Toole across from the Mick.
Though I was in my late 40s then, I felt like a 10 year old kid.
5 years later, my sons and I were in Cooperstown and saw the Mick at Mickeys Place. Mantle of course didn't recognize me at first, from the luncheon, but once I brought it up he signed a 1958 Topps All-Star card and gave it to my son who has since sold it to a member of these boards.
Great memories of great times with a great man!
I still only collect vintage Mantles to this day.
PoppaJ
Its a good thing they got out of there because the house burned down less then 2 years later.
Most of the cards are in a raw 1966 Topps set I have almost finished.
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
Close second: all the card shows I worked with him between the ages of 11-15
Sidenote: worst hobby memory was watching that card shop burn to the ground in 1996. The renter upstairs fell asleep with a cigarette lit and burned the entire building down.
- Jason Lee, "Mallrats"
<< <i>What is your greatest hobby experience?
mine is having the chance to work with Bob Feller, and having a friendship with him. he has done a few private signing with me, and we chat on teh phone every once in a while.
He has a reputation for being very utspoken, but he is a truly kind man.. with a lot of great stories. >>
Feller is a great person to get an Auto from, not just because of his availablility, but because you can chat him up as well. Last time i went to one of his signings in Van Meter, he was telling me about playing ball with Nile Kinnick as a kid. Must have been a hell of a team with those two.
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Seriously though, it sucks growing up in a time where a good card shop is a dime-a-dozen, product is priced out of control and makes pack busting a legitimate form of "gambling", and card shows occur annually rather than weekly or monthly. I've still never been to a "serious" card show before. All I know is ebay and this forum.
My dad worked at his baseball camp in Lakeville Mass. back in the day and his best friend was closely associated with the Williams family.
When we were in line no one was talking, Ted wasnt interacting or even looking up. He was signing the balls and bouncing them off the table. LOL
When we got up to the table I said "Hello Mr. Willaims. Bernie Cassidy said to say Howdy." He stopped, looked up and said how do you know that ol' son of a b1tch? I told him he and my dad were lifelong friends and that he also knew his brother Al Cassidy (who was Ted's fishing buddy, neighbor and ultimately the executor of his estate)
We chatted about my dad and the baseball camp. He laughed and smiled the whole time. One of the show attendants tried to speed things up and hurry us along but Ted shooshed him away. It was AWESOME lol.
We shook hands and got our things signed. then all the people in line were in total awe. wondering how the hell we got any kind of reaction out of him.
Bosox1976
there was more football than baseball as it turned out, but mistakes get made......in the meantime, 200 bucks + the aforementioned pizza/beer offering earned me a 2-of-everything collection of '61 thru '63 Fleer & Topps Fb cards, which didn't seem nearly as popular then, as they are now.....most of the cards were probly Ex-Mt to Nm-Mt, and showed obvious signs of being bounced around in a drawer as well as being handled infrequently....the proceeds realized from the collection helped me parlay into buying more card collections and within a few short months i had quit my regular job to hustle cards......ah, the good ol' days, they truly were.
Mine is simple - the day my son pulled his first Rookie Sensation from a 92F cello pack - the story's long and boring - but to me? Will never forget it - it defines my relationship with Justin and the fun we had together during that time of his life.
mike
<< <i>a former co-worker of mine invited me over to his place and asked if i would be so kind as to bring .......... a 12-pack with me and i would get to view everything he had in .......... the waterbed....he promised that i would get to see some pretty good ..........stuff >>
I took a quick glance at this post, and it got me worried - "Whats going on here?"
Sorry, couldnt resist :-)
Still have that set in plastic sheets. Not in the greatest shape, but bring back a lot of great memories. Liked the San Diego Nationals cards. Still have five or six McCoveys.
This is strange. Once opened a pack of '76 Topps with three Hank Aarons. Odd.
<< <i>Dad bought me two '74 baseball wax boxes from the local drugstore in October of that year for my sixth birthday. They were basically giving them away because it was already football season. He taught me how to gently handle cards and never touch the corners. We made a set and I traded the doubles with the neighborhood kids. >>
Good memory
Remember once he brought home a box of cards from 1976-77 Basketball because I needed one card to complete the set. This was prior to me finding about the baseball card store that was about a mile away from our house. I ravaged the heck out of all those cards back then.
I remember turning/mailing in the wrappers for whatever things they said you could get for them - the one I remember most was the card holder case from I believe 1977 baseball cards (that carrying case is long gone) . I also remember having bowls full of that awful gum.
Boxes must have been at the very most 10-15 bucks back then ?
Then second would be going to Merle (sp?) Harmons Fanfair club at Mayfair once (or more) a month and getting Brewer autographs for free (whoever was there that week or month)..... Yount, Molitor, Cooper, Gantner, Gorman Thomas, Larry Sorenson, Bill Travers, Bill Castro, Charlie Moore, Don Money, Mike Caldwell and all the other cast of brewers from the late 70s and early 80s.
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<< <i>a former co-worker of mine invited me over to his place and asked if i would be so kind as to bring .......... a 12-pack with me and i would get to view everything he had in .......... the waterbed....he promised that i would get to see some pretty good ..........stuff >>
I took a quick glance at this post, and it got me worried - "Whats going on here?"
Sorry, couldnt resist :-) >>
cool. it's been good for a few laughs at co!ktail parties.
-A lot of great trips, and shops. Card shops in San Diego, Carmel, California. Buying packs of cards in Solvang, rummaging through a shop in Sacramento.
Combine cards and what California was like at the time, it was pretty awesome.
-Buying an 89 Hoops pack when they were really hot, and the guy hands me a pack with David Robinson on the top. That was cool.
Buying 1988 Fleer basketball, my first basketball cards. And 88 Topps hockey.
85 Topps baseball, my first baseball cards. Still have my original stash.
Other experiences...
-91 National in Anaheim. Glad I went. Promo mania.
-Seeing different sports stars at shows. Like Rodman in, I think 96 in Anaheim.
-Seeing the McNall/Gretzky Wagner. Saw it in Pasadena, 92. And a few other times.
<< <i>Winning the Score Contest in 1991, and getting to spend a day with Joe DiMaggio at Barry Halper's house. >>
Isn't that what caused the split bewteen Halper the Yankee Clipper??
You remember the cool sound the cards would make as the were ripped apart by the spokes.
That was cool!
*True story. I hate to think what cards I destroyed back then
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
<< <i>catching a pass from dan marino at a show in nj (garden state exhibit center) >>
Sounds familiar. Was at a Tri-Star show in KC and Bradshaw was signing (also Greene, Mark Mulder - A's were in town, Mike Sweeney and Carlos Beltran).
I was chatting with Bradshaw after he finished signing and he was yucking it up with some other guy while juggling a football he had just signed. He asked me if I could catch a football and told me to go to the end of the ailse by the signing area (about 15 yards away). He lobbed a pass and when I caught it and brought it back, he said, "Keep it. It isn't mine..."
I've still got the ball . . .
And Mike Sweeney was probably one of the nicest modern baseball players I've had the pleasure of meeting (he was great with a woman who had two special needs children).