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Posted By: Bryan

The best deal

I bought an original wooden slatted chair from Comisky Park for $30.

The favorite

My grandmother visited Vegas often. She hit it big one time on the quarter slots and when she got back she gave me $100 of her winnings in quarters. I saved the money just as she gave it to me after she passed away. One day I decided to buy something I would appreciated more with that money. I was just starting to buy vintage cards but didn't know too much at the time. I had just received the 1933 Goudey Tris Speaker in the mail and that card lists the Kansas City Blues as his team. I was a fan of Tris Speaker so when I saw a Kansas City Blues hat I decided to buy that with the $100 in quarters. (By the way I cashed the quarters at the bank first.)

As it turns out the cap was a game worn cap by Blues manager Dick Bartell in 1948 who was a fairly good player with the Giants, Phillies, and Tigers. Since then I have been collecting Dick Bartell items thanks to the hat I bought with my grandma's quarters she won in Vegas.