Oddly, the 1994 strike actually jump started my interest in baseball history and vintage card collecting. I was trying to find something to fill the hole in my soul that the stoppage of baseball created. As I remember it, Ken Burns Baseball was originally broadcast on PBS just weeks after the premature end of the season, and I devoured it, especially the deadball and Ruth era episodes. Between that and my Microsoft Baseball CD-ROM, which had stats and bios of most of the top players in history, I was on my way. I bought my first vintage baseball cards sometime in September or October of that year, as I recall a dozen or so 1956 Topps star cards which I still have. I actually found the cards online, though not the www in those days. I think it was a BBS or forum that was part of the Prodigy service, IIRC.
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currently working on:
E101 (33/50)
T3 set (104/104), complete!
T205 set (108/221)
'33 Goudey
collecting W600s, Walter Johnson
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