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DMcDBarry: Didn't mean to distract from your sale. Hadn't had my first cup of coffee yet. Saw the Times article. Thought to myself "What an awesome scrapbook!" Logged on, read your e-mail, thought "Wow! This is awesomer ! Allow an old man to digress . . . I used to collect autographs outside the Yankee Stadium clubhouse back in the fifties (wish I had had the savvy and the chutzpah to go to their hotels); alas, all my siggies and Topps beaters and Action Comics and my coonskin cap are buried in the aptly named Fresh Kills, or perhaps they're part of the sludge mass inching its way across the Atlantic (Thanks, Mom). . . On account of suffering from the current epidemic of pecuniary strangulation going around, my erstwhile humble autograph collection will remain erstwhile, id est, this old kid is not going to be the new steward of the Kid's scrapbooks. I do envy the guy who will be.