Road Trip To The National - One Family's Adventure

timn1 · #1 08-05-2015, 12:55 AM

looks like one supercool kid! Thanks for sharing a great photo-story-

h2oya311 · #2 08-05-2015, 08:05 AM

THANK YOU for brightening up my day...just when I start losing faith in our hobby, a story like this brings me back to life! I look forward to the day I can do the same with my son!! He's a little over two now, but I only have five more years til he's prime "Otis" age!

Shoebox · #3 08-05-2015, 09:26 AM

As a father of three young boys myself I thoroughly enjoyed your story and pictures. Thank you for sharing!

sycks22 · #4 08-05-2015, 09:36 AM

That was a fun read, I hope my kiddos love cards as well. Lots of great memories going to shows with my bro and dad and ripping open some wax.

mattsey9 · #5 08-05-2015, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by h2oya311

THANK YOU for brightening up my day...just when I start losing faith in our hobby, a story like this brings me back to life! I look forward to the day I can do the same with my son!! He's a little over two now, but I only have five more years til he's prime "Otis" age!

No need to wait. Otis was playing with those old Donruss puzzles when he was your son's age. They're small enough to be manageable and they have numbers on the back to make them easy to solve for a little one. I bought him a binder and nine pocket sheets to put 80s era junk wax in so he could, in his words, "play baseball cards with daddy." Don't think that request didn't bring a tear or two to the old man's eyes.

Otis wrote an email this summer with my help that we forwarded to all the MLB teams requesting a fan pack. He's spent the last month sprinting to the mailbox everyday to see if he's got something. About half of the teams have sent him something from bobbleheads to calendars to stickers. Today he got a pocket schedule and some tattoos from the Angels. Guess which group of neighborhood kids are inked up in the backyard playing ball and arguing who gets to be Mike Trout?

RTK · #6 08-05-2015, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mattsey9

No need to wait. Otis was playing with those old Donruss puzzles when he was your son's age. They're small enough to be manageable and they have numbers on the back to make them easy to solve for a little one. I bought him a binder and nine pocket sheets to put 80s era junk wax in so he could, in his words, "play baseball cards with daddy." Don't think that request didn't bring a tear or two to the old man's eyes.

Otis wrote an email this summer with my help that we forwarded to all the MLB teams requesting a fan pack. He's spent the last month sprinting to the mailbox everyday to see if he's got something. About half of the teams have sent him something from bobbleheads to calendars to stickers. Today he got a pocket schedule and some tattoos from the Angels. Guess which group of neighborhood kids are inked up in the backyard playing ball and arguing who gets to be Mike Trout?

Very cool idea, sounds like my childhood, pretending to be a player, copying their batting stance. That's how childhoods are supposed to be...that, and sitting on the porch opening up wax packs and trading cards without regard for "book value".

cardsfan73 · #7 08-05-2015, 11:21 PM

Thread of the year candidate! It's great to see you and your son bonding and having such a love for the game and our great hobby!! A lot of great memories being made!

chaddurbin · #8 08-14-2015, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by RTK

Very cool idea, sounds like my childhood, pretending to be a player, copying their batting stance. That's how childhoods are supposed to be...that, and sitting on the porch opening up wax packs and trading cards without regard for "book value".

i still have my make believe seasonal stats from the late 80's. this was before sabermetrics so it's filled with big hrs rbis batting avgs...but low on obp and ops. looking back my fictional career was probably most similar to rob deer or sam horn.

nice trip report and pics!

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