CW I would love to go shopping in your collection! Great Joe D.

It's a sad story in real life
 

But the 1975-76 Phil Hankinson card always intrigued me

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Thanks, Matt!

Yes, although i am a Yankee fan, the 1957 Dodgers Sluggers card is so insane looking, so great, I can look at that card forever.

1903 New York Giants Benjamin Falk PC

http://www.legendaryauctions.com/cir...lot106976.aspx

Back in 2006... When Joe D. started a thread that ended up with this PC
being his find... I was pretty much in Awe...
I was born in Astoria, NY & I'm an avid MaTTy Nat'l team Collector.
I also like ta keep my "Must have Cards" within reach!
Maybe some day the Timing will be RiGHT!? ;)

It's on my mesmerizing list too Denny...

http://photos.imageevent.com/bicem/s...and%20Bros.jpg

So is this...

http://photos.imageevent.com/bicem/v...p%20Lajoie.jpg

Yes, I have been mesmerized frequently in the course of the 55 years, off and on, I have collected baseball, football, and hockey cards.

It is "just a trading card" some say and even scream, but if it were just that, then why, pray tell, do we even bother having Net54 in the first place?

For me, there's too many to list, but I will name one for each sport mentioned:

football: 1966 Philadelphia Gum Gale Sayers

hockey: 1961-62 Topps Bobby Hull

baseball: 1953 Stahl-Meyer Franks Mickey Mantle

Cheers to all your choices. ----Brian Powell

It's a beater, but it was my first 19th century card (as well as my first $3-figure card). It was found buried inside an old building's foundation, that was being refurbished over 100 years after the card was probably dropped there, by some tobacco smoking contractor, in 1895! That fascinates me, still. Plus, I had always been intrigued by Mr. Duffy's incredible .438 (now .440) single-season BA record, and this being the very next season's card... well, mesmerizing!!

I guess I am not alone in that approximately 75% of us are afflicted.