Thursday, July 3, 2014

stupid moms

so there are apparently a lot of stupid moms in the world as a sportcenter anchor just mentioned that his mom threw out all of his baseball cards when he went away to college... he could have retired on them, he said... i know that feeling... rookie cards for mickey mantle, willie mays, carl yazstremski, willie stargell, roberto clemente, tom seaver, juan marichal, bob gibson, roger maris, reggie jackson, steve carlton, lou brock, rickey henderson, hank aaron, jim palmer, sandy koufax... this list could go on for a while... for most of those guys and a lot of others i had every card from every year they played, many in duplicate and triplicate... and then there were a few even more valuable cards, like babe ruth, lou gehrig, joe dimaggio, stan musial, jackie robinson, and dozens of others... i had many hundreds of thousand baseball cards... they were $10 for a box of 1000 retail and i would buy at least that much weekly, often wholesale so i'd get even more, for years... yeah, millions of dollars today, at least...

and then there were the comic books... i could have opened my own store as they were under 12 cents and i'd but a hundred a week for years... so many other collectables as well as i was making more than $30 a week as a paperboy from the time i was 11 years old and i was kind spoiled with cash gifts from grandma for years before that...

and there was more, but i spent a lot of years trying to forget the value, in dollars and in emotions, of what was thrown out when i left home to join the army... everything was neatly (hermetically sealed) boxed in the corner of the basement... everything was gone when i got home...

stupid... just stupid...

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