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Dan BrettaThat's pretty cool Alan...I've not seen that one before.
I had an old flipbook for a Dempsey/Firpo fight, but I sold it long ago...one of my biggest collecting mistakes happened a few years ago when I was on one of my favorite local buying trips to small town Nebraska. I stopped into a shop and asked the fellow working if he had any old baseball stuff and he told me to hold on a minute and he went into his backroom...when he came out he was holding a 1930's Reach 12 count box with 11 baseballs in it...10 of which were team signed balls of minor league teams and one was a 1937 Brooklyn Dodgers signed ball. He sold me the whole box and a great framed composite photo of a 1910 team named the White City Ramblers for $500 which is really over my limit on these little excursions, but how could I pass that up??? The next shop I stopped into had a Quaker Oats Babe Ruth flip book for $50...I asked the lady to open the case so I could look at it and it was just about perfect....I thought about it and then told myself that I'm already going to have to explain to my wife why I went overbudget already and I better not buy anything else....Whoops! I thought about it when I got home and my wife didn't really say anything to me when I told her what I spent so I called up the Antique store to see if they would set it aside and it was gone. 