I never tire from telling this story:my family and I were in Cooperstown on ‘84 or ‘85. Mr pulled up to a new store billed as the Baseball Card Museum. Place was still being painted, but we met a big man outside and he invited us in. It was Larry Fritsch himself. We saw all these cards. We saw the Wagner and the Doyle.
So Larry must have thought my dad was a player. He invited us in the back room and showed us all these raw cards. We were sitting at his office and he pulls another “Doyle” out. He offers it to my dad for 5k. Dad politely declined
We spent my paper route money on Evers, Chance, Matty and Red Cobb. I took the lesser Cobb for $25 less. Paper loss on the back. A decision that bothers me to this day.
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