Crawford Foxwell, Tom Collier, Mike Aronstein

[TCMA]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

Me too. I have a sheet of TCMA cards where all the attendee's signed the back. We all got a sheet with everyone's "autograph" as I recall.

I'll try to find it and post it here.

Fred McKie

Fred, I know my father has at least one of those sheets you mentioned. Maybe two. I've seen them and have a pretty good idea where they're at. If I get the chance I'll scan one and post .

[whiteymet]

Finally got around to digging out the "autographed" poster of all the collectors who attended one of the first "conventions" at Mike Aronstein's home in 1970.


Highlighted names as far as I am aware of had the T206 set complete with a Wagner card at some point in their collecting history.

From top left

Bill Haber long time collector wrote the backs of Topps cards

Crawford Foxwell whose postcard started this thread. He later hosted a similar get together at his home in Maryland

Bill Zekus He was either a publication or autograph collector I forget which

David Zemsky Sorry, I have no recollection of him

Nate Cohen again, no recollection

Tom Dischley brother of Dan Discley publisher of The Trader Speaks

Dennis Graye an enigmatic collector who would show up with GREAT material then disappear for a year or two and show up again with great stuff. Wonder what ever happened to him? From Michigan if I recall correctly.

Mike Jasperson, son of Bob Jasperson works for Topps now I believe

Fred McKie some college sophomore at the time trying to keep up with the big guys!

Bruce Yeko owner of Wholesale Cards, at the time the largest mail order house

Irv Lerner long time collector/dealer from Philly had a Wagner at one point not sure if he had the entire T206 set or not

Dan Dischley the aforementioned publisher of the Trader Speaks THE collector publication of the time. Was also a police officer in Long Island, NY. Recall him taking a few of us to a "Gentlemen's Club" in Long Island in later years after a show in L.I.

Mike Aronstein our host and the MA in TCMA

Bob Jasperson long time collector and Publisher of Sports Fan and various collecting publications

Bill Mastro a high school student at the time whose father drove myself and Bill to the meeting from New Jersey. He hung around the hobby for awhile.

Upper right corner

Tom Collier the TC of TCMA. Never knew if his story of one of his many wives getting mad at him and ripping up his Wagner card and flushing it down the toilet was true or not.

Bill Himmelman long time collector from NJ I believe. I know he is still around, maybe here on Net54 but I personally, unfortunately, have lost track of him.

Jim MacAllister collector from Philly I think. Don't think he is still "around" could be wrong. Anyone know?

Myron Aronstein Mike Aronstein's Uncle as I recall.

Any corrections/updates on the above welcomed.

Fred

[TCMA]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

Bill Himmelman long time collector from NJ I believe. I know he is still around, maybe here on Net54 but I personally, unfortunately, have lost track of him.

Fred, thanks for posting this! Bill Himmelman and my father are still very close and they get together whenever my father is back here in NY.

[trdcrdkid]

I was going to post this as a new thread, but then I remembered this thread and knew I should post it here. I was looking through issues of Ballcard Collector from 1970 and in the July 1970 issue (v5, n7, #46 overall), I found the following account of the March 15, 1970 mini-convention at Mike Aronstein's house that is the subject of this thread. It's not clear to me who wrote the unsigned article -- I thought it might be George R. Martin, the editor of Ballcard Collector, but Martin lived in Tennessee, and the author says he flew there with Dennis Graye, who lived in Detroit. I guess it might be one of the people from Fred's signed piece who are not named in the article. Anyway, I hope people find this interesting, especially those of you who were there. (Except Bill Mastro, who I hear is otherwise occupied.)

[Rich Klein]

He left Topps 2 years ago IIRC and is now a full time case breaker in new cards.

Rich

[TCMA]

Originally Posted by trdcrdkid

I was going to post this as a new thread, but then I remembered this thread and knew I should post it here. I was looking through issues of Ballcard Collector from 1970 and in the July 1970 issue (v5, n7, #46 overall), I found the following account of the March 15, 1970 mini-convention at Mike Aronstein's house that is the subject of this thread.

Amazing!! Thank you SO much for posting this. Exactly the type of thing I've been trying to track down. Sounds like there were quite a few cameras on hand at this event, though I don't think I've ever seen any photos. Knowing my father they are around somewhere and will turn up if I dig around long enough.