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Dave WilliamsI love history, and bought an old scrapbook at an estate sale in the 70's with newspaper clippings, photos, etc... from the 30's and 40's about mainly baseball, but also Notre Dame football. I also got some old baseball registers from the 50's at that sale.
I read everything in them, and all the old registers, and then at flea markets would buy anything that was old. I got my first T 206's of McGinnity and Casey at a junk barn in Georgia, and then a Chance, Phillippe, and a couple other T 206's at a flea market in Peoria, Illinois.
Then when Beckett published his first annual guide I bought one, and realized there were gobs of pre WWII cards out there, and would go to card shows and buy all the HOF'ers I could afford.