[HercDriver]

It turns out that you are limited to 20 pictures in any message, so I had to trim a couple off the top. It also turns out that it's snowing up in the hills and I have the day off...so going to go throw myself down the slopes of Beaver Creek today, for a bit. But before I do, I better post some more cards! I finally made it to that spot in the stack that has the cards we all hate, pretty much universally...manager cards. Ugghhh...what a horrible thing to find in your pack of cards, when you are looking for a Mantle, Banks, or Mays. I mean heads of dudes are horrible, but heads of managers are even worse. It's not like you could even trade them to anybody. When I met my wife, she used to tell me that some baseball player lived next to her grandma, but she couldn't remember who. When I finally made my first trip to Philly to meet her grandparents, it turned out it was Mickey Vernon, mowing his lawn. I never went over to say hello, and I've always regretted it. My wife had another run-in, after we were first married. She worked for a charity in St Louis and had a big lunch to raise money one day. She came home and said she sat next to an old Cardinal player, who was really nice and talked her ear off the whole time. She pulled out a ball and told me that he was signing a few, and gave her one. Yep, Stan Musial. When we went to a game one day, I pointed to the statue and asked if she recognized him. Nope. Haha...I said, "you had lunch with him!!" I didn't post the batting leaders card of 1960 in this auction, but if I had, Dick Groat would have been your winner. Who do you think was second? Second in the league, ahead of Mays, Clemente, Boyer, and all those big names...who would that be? Norm Larker. Really?!? Norm Larker? The Dodgers were so impressed, they let him go to the Colt 45's in the expansion draft of '62. If only you would have beat out a few more infield rollers, Normy...

Did Ed Hobaugh play Ice Man in Top Gun? Or did Val Kilmer play Ed Hobaugh on the Senators? Hmmm...

Card Tracker:
86 cards total, clocking in at 56 cents each, shipped