"Greed Strikes Out" - A fun read from 1991
I've been going through boxes of misc. baseball stuff I picked up in the 1990's that I hadn't looked at in years, and I came across this piece written by the Washington Post's Thomas Boswell, the long-time dean of DC's sports writers, about his own experience with his childhood baseball card collection. He wrote this piece in 1991, and I cut it out and saved it all these years. I discovered that this piece, which I think you all will enjoy reading, is available on line - here's the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-3c7967a331f8/
Part of what made Boswell's story interesting to me is that he and I collected Topps cards around the same time when we were kids. Another interesting aspect to me is Boswell's mention of going to Bill Huggins' (of Huggins & Scott) card shop in suburban Wheaton, MD. It was at Bill's shop a few years earlier that I acquired my first pre-War card, a T207 of WaJo.
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Seeking very scarce/rare cards for my Sam Rice master collection, e.g., E210 York Caramel Type 2 (upgrade), 1931 W502, W504 (upgrade), W572 sepia, W573, W575-1 E. S. Rice version, 1922 Haffner's Bread, 1922 Keating Candy, 1922 Witmor Candy Type 2 (vertical back), 1926 Sports Co. of Am. with ad & blank backs. Also T216 Kotton "NGO" card of Hugh Jennings. Also 1917 Merchants Bakery & Weil Baking cards of WaJo.
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