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Posted By: Dave Williams

My dad was absolutely NOT a sports fan, we never went to ball games, he was working all the time.

But my mom was cleaning out some elderly ladies attic about 1974 or so, and found about 30 61 Fleer baseball greats, which were split between another boy and myself. I was about 12 or so. We divided them up evenly, each picking one, and I got first pick and took Frank Chance, because of "Tinker to Evers to Chance". The other kid picked Ted Williams, I'm not sure how we divided up the rest.

Between the 1976 Topps set, plus a baseball record book I bought for myself about the same time, I was hooked on baseball history and records.

I'd scour flea markets, antique shops looking for baseball cards, and got some T 206's that way, plus bunches of Red Mans, Bowmans, and others.