Tell your story about the cards Mom threw away

[orator1]

I'd bet that most collectors have a story about cards that were discarded, lost, or sold by a parent or sibling.

While I was at college my mother had a garage sale and sold a shoebox full of about 1000 cards from the early 1970s for $1.

Back in the 1950s her younger brother collected baseball cards and had a box full of them. When she was about 14 years old she decided her little brother shouldn't waste his time looking at cards, so she threw them out.

For decades he wondered whatever happened to his cards. His favorite team was the Yankees and he said he had several Mantles (not sure which year). My mother finally came clean about it years later when my brother and I were searching every corner of their house for them, thinking they were just lost. The good news is that we found my uncle's comic books from the 1950s and 1960s, nothing very valuable but still nice to see.

I'm guilty as well - my brother and I used to attach baseball cards to the spokes of our bikes to make a "cool" sound as we rode.

If you've got a card story let's hear it!

Paul C.
Pr0726@aol.com

...Reward offered for scan of James O'Rourke N175, H812, N173(throwing), T5 Pinkerton(O'Rourke Jr.)