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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
Some of you may have heard this before, but to get to the former Berra home in Montclair, NJ you literally came to a fork in the road. . . .and had to take it.
I know plenty of people who trick o' treated there as kids. For many years Yogi and Carmen handed out baseball cards on Halloween. Great people.
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So Yogi and Carmen handed out baseball cards on Halloween, huh?
Hmmmmm.......
I can't resist this one. Imagine, it's Halloween, 1959. The Berras are graciously giving out these baseball cards Yogi got at his Yoo-Hoo Chocolate Drink factory in Carlstadt, NJ. The trick-or-treating kids smile broadly, but when they see the black 'n white cards, they react with a slight wince of disappointment. Even this card of Mickey Mantle with a blank white strip at the bottom leaves them unimpressed. One kid laments, "Oh, that's that card the Yoo-Hoo people were giving out in late spring - early summer when Mickey was supposed to show up to meet kids and sign autographs. They had these black ' n white cards made of Mantle, and whatda'ya know, he don't show. What a rip! I don't want this card!" And the kid unceremoniously throws it on the wet pavement.
Flash forward 62 years, and now any of the desperately few decent Yoo-Hoo Mickey Mantles will bring about $35,000 in scratch----EASILY.
Montclair, New Jersey dreamin', on nice autumn day!
--- Brian Powell