Posted By:
Rob RayDoes it have to be ONE thing? 
That's pretty tough.....
1) PLaying with my great uncle George (Nap) Rucker's hat and Dodgers jacket as a child after they were given to my mom after we visited him down south one summer in late 60s.
They were beautiful. Gave them to my yougner brother when I went away to college (they were in my closet at home)...and...he was a bad apple at the time (late 70s)...he sold them both for drugs (and this was back when they weren't worth as much as they would have been now). I would have absolutely kept them downstairs with my father's WW2 army stuff. And still have them to this day. I'm still ashamed my brother gave away these family heirlooms to this day,although he himself has straightened out.
2) Like most others, giving away all my dad's cards (tons of beaufitul goudeys,along with about a dozen Ruths and Gehrigs...guess they weren't too scarce back in the day)...AND all my 60s and early 70s cards...all perfectly preserved right from the packs to my neatly-rowed shoeboxes...along with the wrappers! Gave them away to my cousin (also when I went away to college),with whom I have no contact with anymore. Along with my cards and my dad's cards,my next door neighbor gave HIS 50s and early 60s cards to ME when He went away to school in mid 60s,and I kept THEM with MY cards,too. Can't imagine how much vintage I would have to this day...common enough story,I guess,huh? The SMART ones held onto their cards:-)