A collecting theory: the wife test

[sb1]

Mine did ok..

Wagner
Cobb
Aaron
Mantle
Ruth

She could have went on, we stopped at five.

[obcbobd]

Was married for 15 years before divorcing in 2016. My wife loved baseball and I'm sure could name quite a few players. We were at Fenway the first day of our honeymoon as we had a late flight. Now, football, I'm sure she knew Brady and that was about it

[nebboy]

List I got

Barry Bonds (she lived in Pittsburgin the late 80s)
Bobby Bonilla (again lived in the PA)
Ted Williams (she knows the frozen head story)
Cal Ripken (said he was best looking player)
And that Perez guy that catches for Kansas City (she had a hard time thinking of a 5th for the list)

[Fred]

My wife knows a lot of the players from the last 30+ years, not the old timers (but I'm sure could name more than I thought she could). She asks how Juan Soto thinks he could turn down a $430M+ contract (ok, I could try and give her reasons, but she'd give me that stare - "really?"). That said, if I were to ask her to pick out a T206 from an N172 or a 1933 Goudey, she'd be scratching her head.

Now there's a question - how many different baseball card sets can your wife identify.

[boysblue]

First five in order:

1. Hank Aaron
2. Jackie Robinson
3. Mickey Mantle
4. Babe Ruth
5. "Something" Williams

But she turned the table son me and asked me to name all the fashion designers that I know. Got two!

[cjedmonton]

Fun quiz. My wife named these 4 in order and then drew a blank.

1. Yogi Berra (same birthday)
2. Alex Rodriguez (J-Lo)
3. Mickey Mantle
4. Joe DiMaggio (Mr. Monroe)

80s hockey on the other hand? Would have reeled off an easy 25-30.

Huge Oilers fan during their heyday and knew many others around the league at the time.

[pete zouras]

mickey rooney, snicker, mantle
babe ruth
lou garret, did I say that right?
that guy on sharktank
sammy sosa

[mechanicalman]

My wife’s list, and she’s hot, too.

Babe Ruth
Walter Johnson
Ty Cobb
Lou Gehrig
Hank Aaron

(It helps that we named our puppy Walter Johnson.)

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by boysblue

But she turned the table son me and asked me to name all the fashion designers that I know. Got two!

Did you at least get Levi Strauss?

[knoxcat1983]

Ruth Gehrig arod mays Koufax

[philliesfan]

If I asked my wife, her reply would be.....shut the hell up. Baseball is boring. All I hear is baseball talk from March to November so no baseball talk during the off season.

Bob

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by boysblue

First five in order:

1. Hank Aaron
2. Jackie Robinson
3. Mickey Mantle
4. Babe Ruth
5. "Something" Williams

But she turned the tables on me and asked me to name all the fashion designers that I know. Got two!

Similar here, she got:

Babe Ruth
Jeter "obviously"
A-Rod
Paul O'Neill (she had a crush on him back in the day)

Then she blanked, went on her phone and came up with a list of players she recognized on sight, but couldn't name when put under pressure to come up with names.

Then she asked me to name all the bones in the human body. I gave up after "Tibia".

[Peter_Spaeth]

Remember the scene in Diner?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by sb1

Mine did ok..

Wagner
Cobb
Aaron
Mantle
Ruth

She could have went on, we stopped at five.

That's because she deals with your customers when you set up and are making deals all across the show.