Wanted: Sid Gordon Cards

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Posted By: Andy Baran

I have no idea exactly what the relationship is. I never understood the "removed" thing. Unfortunately, part of the reason that I never met Sid is that he didn't live to be an old man. He died of a heart attach while playing softball in Central Park in 1975.

One of my uncles was a very good baseball player in High School in Brooklyn, and was getting some attention from some scouts. Sid convinced him to go to college instead (where he also played baseball, but few college grads got attention from the scouts at the time) because he told my uncle that college grads usually had one job, where pro baseball players during that time needed to have a second job in the off-season.