Let me also add my condolences for your loss. This death thing has been popping up way too much in my circles lately and it never fails to hurt.
If you pm your address I would be happy to send you something related to Killebrew, who was one of my favorites also.
Keeping the memories alive through baseball is cathartic, IMO. My dad, now gone for more than 25 years, grew up during the Depression and really didn't collect, but he had several stories to tell and favorite players (Roy Campanella) that resonated with me. I remember him teaching me how to compute "games behind' in the standings when I was about 6, and the look on his face around that time when I asked if Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson were brothers. You probably can come up with lots of similar stories. It's strange to have a tear in your eye at the same time as an ear to ear grin.
Please stay strong and enjoy what he left you.
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Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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