A personal memory and experience that goes with a card
frankhardy
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There was a similar thread over on Net 54 that I got this idea from. I posted my story there, and thought I would do the same here.
Back in 1998, I had just got married to my gorgeous bride (I had to throw that in there!) My wife really was not a baseball fan at all, but when we got married and realized what I Cardinals fan I was, she started watching games with me. She became a Cardinals fan that summer and probably knows more about the Cardinals than the average fan. The fact that Mark McGwire was in the middle of a riveting HR chase didn't hurt in pulling her in either.
We were married in June. We wanted to get tickets to hopefully see a McGwire HR. We really wanted to see McGwire set the record, so we decided to get tickets on the next to the last game of the season, thinking it might be a possibility. Well, we all know that he broke the record early in September. Then, I got to thinking that we just might see the LAST HR he would hit that season and that would be the permanent record right? Turns out that he hit 2 HR's that Saturday game (#67 and #68). Then, he turned around and hit 2 more (#69 and #70) during the last game of the season the next day.
So, we drove up to St Louis on Saturday, September 26, 1998. Every time McGwire came to the plate, I had our camera ready. I think I snapped a picture with every pitch. He hit number 67 early in the game. I got a decent shot of it, but it was nothing like the picture I took of HR number 68. I took the picture right after McGwire's follow through. I have always been proud of that picture.
A few years later, I ran across this 1999 card produced by Pacific. It was a Pacific Private Stock card featuring the McGwire's HR chase. This was the card for HR number 68. The picture was taken less than one second after I took my picture, only from a different angle, obviously. I have posted both below.
Back in 1998, I had just got married to my gorgeous bride (I had to throw that in there!) My wife really was not a baseball fan at all, but when we got married and realized what I Cardinals fan I was, she started watching games with me. She became a Cardinals fan that summer and probably knows more about the Cardinals than the average fan. The fact that Mark McGwire was in the middle of a riveting HR chase didn't hurt in pulling her in either.
We were married in June. We wanted to get tickets to hopefully see a McGwire HR. We really wanted to see McGwire set the record, so we decided to get tickets on the next to the last game of the season, thinking it might be a possibility. Well, we all know that he broke the record early in September. Then, I got to thinking that we just might see the LAST HR he would hit that season and that would be the permanent record right? Turns out that he hit 2 HR's that Saturday game (#67 and #68). Then, he turned around and hit 2 more (#69 and #70) during the last game of the season the next day.
So, we drove up to St Louis on Saturday, September 26, 1998. Every time McGwire came to the plate, I had our camera ready. I think I snapped a picture with every pitch. He hit number 67 early in the game. I got a decent shot of it, but it was nothing like the picture I took of HR number 68. I took the picture right after McGwire's follow through. I have always been proud of that picture.
A few years later, I ran across this 1999 card produced by Pacific. It was a Pacific Private Stock card featuring the McGwire's HR chase. This was the card for HR number 68. The picture was taken less than one second after I took my picture, only from a different angle, obviously. I have posted both below.
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My wife and I will watch sports together but I don't watch any where near how I did before the "big" strike.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
Collecting:
Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.