"Greed Strikes Out" - A fun read from 1991

[ValKehl]

I've been going through boxes of misc. baseball stuff I picked up in the 1990's that I hadn't looked at in years, and I came across this piece written by the Washington Post's Thomas Boswell, the long-time dean of DC's sports writers, about his own experience with his childhood baseball card collection. He wrote this piece in 1991, and I cut it out and saved it all these years. I discovered that this piece, which I think you all will enjoy reading, is available on line - here's the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-3c7967a331f8/

Part of what made Boswell's story interesting to me is that he and I collected Topps cards around the same time when we were kids. Another interesting aspect to me is Boswell's mention of going to Bill Huggins' (of Huggins & Scott) card shop in suburban Wheaton, MD. It was at Bill's shop a few years earlier that I acquired my first pre-War card, a T207 of WaJo.

[JRO$!(]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

I've been going through boxes of misc. baseball stuff I picked up in the 1990's that I hadn't looked at in years, and I came across this piece written by the Washington Post's Thomas Boswell, the long-time dean of DC's sports writers, about his own experience with his childhood baseball card collection. He wrote this piece in 1991, and I cut it out and saved it all these years. I discovered that this piece, which I think you all will enjoy reading, is available on line - here's the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-3c7967a331f8/

Part of what made Boswell's story interesting to me is that he and I collected Topps cards around the same time when we were kids. Another interesting aspect to me is Boswell's mention of going to Bill Huggins' (of Huggins & Scott) card shop in suburban Wheaton, MD. It was at Bill's shop a few years earlier that I acquired my first pre-War card, a T207 of WaJo.

Never saw that article before. Good stuff, Thanks again!

[Rhotchkiss]

Awesome article Val, thanks for posting!

[steve B]

It's behind a paywall

[Tyruscobb]

Originally Posted by steve B

It's behind a paywall

No, no it is not.

[jgannon]

Great article, thanks for sharing

[Jobu]

This is terrific! I think everyone here will really enjoy reading it - and find parts of it quite relevant to today. Some big hobby names in there too.