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Originally Posted by ReefBlue (Post 1183491)

Though people would have to explain how in a ten minute time frame these people would even listen to you. Why would Roberto Clemente listen to someone he's never met before and absolutely change his plans to stop doing something he is passionate about . . . .

We'd all be anachronisms. We wouldn't belong. Best case you could do is get a job working in a store for packs of tobacco that have baseball cards in them in lieu of pay, and even then, you'd need weeks to accumulate anything real.

It'd be like arguing how you could stop the Titanic from sinking. You first have to explain overcoming the crew even listening to you in the first place.

You could also trigger a collecting boom, so that would make old material way more available and less valuable--'hey, that guy is hoarding these baseball cards, maybe we should too.'.

This is all true. But I suppose I could carry a copy of the January 1, 1973 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette which shows the headline to verify my story.

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images...jpg?1324337613

Really, more than anything, this discussions is meant to offer a change of pace. It's more to glean what things members wish they could change from the past than to consider how successful they would be in doing so.

C'mon Cubs fans, Moises Alou has admitted he couldn't have caught the ball anyway.

I'm still pissed that Bud Selig didn't go back and change Gallarraga's game to a perfect game after the fact. It wouldn't have set any kind of crazy precedent, he could have said "the only precedent I'm setting is to correct an egregious error on the final out of a perfect game. If it ever comes up again, I'll do the same thing again." NOBODY would have been mad about that and NOBODY would have tried to get stuff changed because a "precedent" had been set. GRRR.

For me, I'd probably go back to the summer of 1997 and somehow get a different limo driver for the Red Wings.

I'd show up at the shop printing the T206s, dazzle them with my knowledge of modern print techniques, say I was there for a press check, sign off on one sheet (before trimming) and tell them I need to keep a flat, uncut sheet of each example they have for later quality comparison.