As we are look back at this year, and look ahead to next, we thought
a great deal about our collection. And so we asked what is the one item in the collection that we associate with an important moment or memory in our life.

For us, it was a full ticket to 1958 World Series. It was October 1958 when my dad took me to my first baseball game. It was at Yankee Stadium and we watched in awe as Don Larsen shout out the World Champion Milwaukee Braves4-0. While our hero, Mickey Mantle, did not have a good day at the plate the late Hank Bauer was the day's hitting star.

When we began collecting some 17 years later, we continually searched for a full ticket to that game. In early 2009,at the White Plains show, we were disappointed that there was "nothing to buy" . Magically, on the way out of
show, we saw a table with a large group of Yankee WS tickets. Th 1958 ticket jumped from the table and into our collection.

And suddenly it was that cold October 1958 date all over again.

What is your "special memory?"


Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List
bsorskind@dorkindgroup.com