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[parker1b2]

My Avatar is a lithograph of Crosley Field.

I collect a broad range of Baseball Memorabilia, with no real true focus. The main part of the auto side is around HOFers, but try to collect a little of everything. Thanks to this board, I have been really getting into a lot more of the earlier stuff then I have in the past.

The reason I chose my avatar was to in a way honor my grandfather and father, who really got me into collecting. I grew up in NJ and a Yankees fan, while my father grew up in Indiana and him and my grandfather were huge Reds fans. This lithograph used to hang in my grandfathers house, and we would visit him every summer and I remember just always looking at it as he would tell me stories about Crosley field and the old days of baseball and the players. When he passed in 1994, my father took it off his wall and said that my grandfather wanted me to have it. So that is why I chose it.