Special card...captures a personal family memory...

[Harliduck]

Ok...something happened to me today that transcends card collecting for me.

This last year I took my young son to his first Baseball game at Safeco park. He is an avid Mariners fan and Kendry Morales and Raul Ibanez are his two favorites. The game was AMAZING...Raul hit a 2 HRs in the game, and Kendry hit a 3-0 fastball out to deep center for the walk off win in the bottom of the 9th. My son FREAKED out and we stayed about an hour after the game, he simply didn't want to leave. I actually had all 4 of my kids there (3 daughters!) and I couldn't have dialed up a better game to go to. It also happened the week before my second oldest daughter left for Europe to play ball (she is a Fastpitch player who is on Team USA). Just perfect timing, a perfect day for my family...and Baseball/Softball is huge in our lives. We were actually not even planning on going to game, but we were picking up our daughter from the airport (she was playing in Arizona) and on a whim pulled into Safeco.

So today I see in our local online paper a story on the new 2014 Topps cards. I don't do "new"...but my son does like to get packs. In the story, they talk about the new Kendrys Morales card...about how cool it was the Mariners didn't let him celebrate his walk off HR like he did when he broke his leg while playing for the Angels, and it was captured on the card. THE GAME WE WERE AT!!! I took my son down to the store...bought some packs...and BAM...pulled the card!! Now my son has a card of his favorite player with a picture taken the day he was 100 feet from where the action took place! I can't believe it...




Sorry to post a "new" card...but I consider this forum my community and I wanted to share. So cool...memories forever and captured in cards. THANKS TOPPS! That's a card pull he will NEVER forget, and now has a front row picture to remember the game. Unreal.