In the early winter of 1975, about six months after we began "serious" collectors of rare top condition baseball cards and memorabilia business interests took us to Beverly Hills for a five days of meetings.

A number of prominent East Coast collectors- most notably the late George Lyons and Lew Lipset, suggested that we visit with the best of the west.

We visited with Goody Goldfaden at a coffee shop not far from his store-where we were able to purchase a great looking N 162 set for $250. He offered us five more sets, but we did not have the foresight to recognize how valuable these cards would become. Over the years we spoke with and visited Goody many times. He actually knew my late Uncle who was then CEO of Universal Pictures.

Off to Orange County. Mike Berkus arranged a car service for us,took us to lunch and we spent the
whole day with Mike, Gavin Riley, Jim Nowell (the most impressive regional collection we had ever seen) and
the legendary Bill Heitman. Bill discussed his law practice and the fact that his dad was a collector.

We felt like a little kid who had an all expenses paid trip to Disney Land. In fact, we can not remember a better day with
anyone or at other time in the 59 years that we have lived on the planet.

Whilst some believe it is only baseball cards (i.e. Boxing Card Man), to us that was the day we fell totally
in love with the hobby. That love grows stronger every year.

Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List
bdorskind@dorskindgroup.com

America's premiere buyer of rare, high grade baseball memorabilia and ultra high grade type cards. All correspondence will be considered confidential