It may be a little too late to make such dramatic plans. Perhaps you want to wait, focus, plan, and join us in Cleveland next year!

Ken

;):p

Jim will just have to decide which venue he wants to go to because its either occasionally baltimore, or very heavily rotated between Chicago and Cleveland and that's it for the long term foreseeable future.

so its either crabcakes, deep dish pizza pie, or tuna fish sandwiches.

Tuna fish sandwiches and the Rock n Roll HOF,,, interesting combo.

Hey, pal, I don't appreciate the stereotyping!! I haven't eaten tuna fish since, well, last Saturday! (TWO sandwiches at one time!)

Don't forget, we also specialize in losing sports teams, road construction, and vacant factories/office buildings that you can buy cheap. On the other hand, we're about to have 2 brand-spanking-new casinos, so you can leave some money here when you leave. (OK, to be transparent, one is brand-spanking-new, the other is in one of those aforementioned vacant buildings.)

Ken

I would love to meet all of you at the National one of these days. So much knowledge to be had if Richard, Jim, and Bill were in the same building :p

Jim - Wasn't one of your last Nationals when . . .
 

. . . you and Bill Corcoran hosted alittle hotel room social that included the presence of Bob Feller ? I can't remember. Seems like a very long time ago.

Hey, if you think you might get bored at Bill's booth, why don't you give Ron Gordon a call before the show and ask him to bring some of those New Mexico ratters with him. That should liven up the place. Especially if one (or three) happen to escape on the showroom floor. Somehow, I can imagine that the three/four of you could find a place that sells decent snake-bite medicine (I'm partial to good Irish whiskeys).

Ok Jim,,, we have a formula for a great National, you, me, Bill, Ron and a couple of reptiles. Sounds like a hit !! :D:D.

I plan on making my first trip to Nationals next year in Cleveland :)

Richard,

I'd be willing to venture that one could find a bunch of snakes at the National selling all kinds of bogus stuff. Everything from "game used" stuff that has never sniffed a pro game, all the way to "autographs" signed many years after the subject was deceased.

Mike

I thought that someone would make the comparison of snakes and reptiles to those who sell bogus stuff :D.
I can recall my most flagrant incident at a National. I was walking the room and at a booth and the next booth was exhibiting items from one of the most notorious forgers still in operation. The customer at that booth asked the person behind the counter if he had any Ruth cuts. The guy reached down and pulled out an envelope scattering the contents on the showcase in front of him. He dumped out at least 20 little pieces of paper. As I leaned in a bit I could see that they were all cuts with "Babe Ruth" so called autographs on them. The customer actually started to inspect them.

Oh yes, that "notorious forger" is still in business. I call it the "M" factor.

JimStinson
 

yea , P.T. Barnum he deserved everything he got. The World is FULL of innocent individuals completely unaware that fraud and lies exist in the World , I think most of them come from a place called OZ or Shangrala , God Bless them