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Originally Posted by bigfanNY
I wish I had started collecting scored scorecards years ago. They make great companion pieces!
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Companion pieces???
Cards are picked up in candy or drug store or picked up at a grocery store and cut off a back etc. BUT SCORECARDS...They were at a Game!! Witness to the ebb and flow of the National game as it happened. They are not a companion pieces......
Lol..
Seriously great post I had a great boss for a bit with season tickets to Yankees and as long work was done didn't mind running into me at afternoon games.
Because I have always favored Daytime Baseball.
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Yes, scorecards are uber historical (I love the ads too!), one of the reasons I wish I had started collecting them years ago, before the prices shot up. I definitely gravitate more towards historical pieces these days. BTW, my Dad DID take me/us to plenty of Giants games between 1965-1971, when we lived in SF. But as a kid I was so jealous I had to go to school knowing my Dad was at Candlestick watching a noon Giants game, on many a Monday. Of course he had to weather the wind and cold at "The Stick", which could be brutal by afternoon
I watched many games wrapped in a blanket while drinking hot chocolate from a thermos. Just about every game I went to it seemed like McCovey would hit a line drive HR to that little bleacher section beyond the RF fence. Some great memories. BTW, I should add that most of my early scorecards were scored in pencil, not pen. Didn't want to throw anybody off by my mentioning pen ink color/texture. I was tired when I wrote that post. I only have a few scorecards scored in pen. And those are from the later 1960's. Here is a score card from a 1951 Dodgers @ Giants game. Maglie threw a 3 hit shutout in the Polo Grounds. I believe this was a June night game. I play SOM baseball and am replaying the 1951 Giants season. It is hard for me to believe anyone could have shutout the Dodgers that year. They had such a potent lineup!!