[conor912]

I was always into “old baseball” as a kid and by the time I in high school I was collecting exclusively vintage. When I was a senior I was taking the commuter rail into Boston and someone had left a copy of SI with Al Simmons on the cover. I picked it up and read about the late 20’s A’s teams that were as good as the Yankees during the same time. For the first time, I was read about Foxx, Grove, Simmons, and Mickey Cochrane, who I took a particular interest in since he grew up not far from me, and attended Boston University, where I was headed the next fall. I’m a set collector, so to this day he’s the only singular player I collect.