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Hal LewisI would go back to 1948 so that I could hang out with my other time-traveling buddy, David Vargha, before he started his long stint in the looney bin for predicting that baseball cards would actully be WORTH something... and for talking about some futuristic demonry known as the "Internet."
Then, in early 1949, Vargha and I would hang around outside the stores in New York and New Jersey and when a young little kid named Ted Zanidakis came out of the store with his cards...
we would trade him all of our 1949 Leaf Luke Appling cards (a well-known commodity at the time) for all of his 1949 Leaf Leroy Paige cards (who has ever heard of "Leroy" Paige??).
Then... I would get back in my time machine... come back to 2005... and remind Ted Z. about how he once was the owner of 75 Satchell Paige rookie cards... and I would ask him if he still had those 75 Luke Appling cards.
So Ted... tell the truth.... did you ever trade away a bunch of Satchell rookie cards as a kid??