Topic: What is your most powerful and important memory with baseball cards?

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by dbussell12

ah val! great to talk with you on here, not just on ebay. we may have both been at the chantilly show on the same day this year! i was there sunday; will definitely be back for the next two this year too. it was awesome.

for me it has to be getting my first vintage card with my dad at aj's sports stop. do you remember it? right over in vienna. little shop full to the brim with pages and pages and boxes and boxes of vintage. 1960 topps warren spahn. when i got back into collecting, last fall, i got a bob gibson 1960 topps signed card.

this week was another big moment. 1953 topps satchel paige, in a beautiful well worn piece. wonderful, wonderful card.

David, I have been going to all of the Chantilly Shows for as long as I can remember, but never on Sunday. I was at the very recent Show on Saturday.

Yes, I remember AJ's Sports Stop in Vienna. I didn't go there very often because it was a fair distance from Haymarket, where I lived at that time. I do recall picking up a few of my N172 Old Judge cards of Washington players (the only N172s I collect) at AJ's back in the 1990's.

[campyfan39]

I wrote a whole book about mine!

My Dad went in 1978 (I was 5) to my grandparents' house to retrieve his grocery bags of cards from his childhood. His grandpa ran a grocery store and would give him packs on their weekly Sunday visits in Durham, NC. The first ones Dad remembered were 54 topps.

He knew they were "cleaning house" now that his younger sister had moved out. Unfortunately, they had thrown his cards and comics out two days before he arrived. He would have been happy to dumpster dive, but they used a burn barrel!

Dad then went on a journey to "Buy Back" the cards of his youth, and he took me along for the ride! He passed at barely 54 years old. I was only 29. I now treasure those times together, those cards, and the people we met. I documented them mainly for my boys and friends, but it has sold a decent number of copies. Rich Klein even did a nice article on the book when it came out 14 years ago, and Leon let me make a post here. I am in the process of editing and updating it now! (Grammarly and professional editors have humbled me haha!)

And YES my thumb looks terrible! I smashed it during a mission trip to western NC last weekend!

Great to read everyones stories!

[dbussell12]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

I wrote a whole book about mine!

My Dad went in 1978 (I was 5) to my grandparents' house to retrieve his grocery bags of cards from his childhood. His grandpa ran a grocery store and would give him packs on their weekly Sunday visits in Durham, NC. The first ones Dad remembered were 54 topps.

He knew they were "cleaning house" now that his younger sister had moved out. Unfortunately, they had thrown his cards and comics out two days before he arrived. He would have been happy to dumpster dive, but they used a burn barrel!

Dad then went on a journey to "Buy Back" the cards of his youth, and he took me along for the ride! He passed at barely 54 years old. I was only 29. I now treasure those times together, those cards, and the people we met. I documented them mainly for my boys and friends, but it has sold a decent number of copies. Rich Klein even did a nice article on the book when it came out 14 years ago, and Leon let me make a post here. I am in the process of editing and updating it now! (Grammarly and professional editors have humbled me haha!)

And YES my thumb looks terrible! I smashed it during a mission trip to western NC last weekend!

Great to read everyones stories!

wow chris you're ahead of the game on this one!! what's your doctorate in by the way? im a masters in philosophy + systems theory

this sounds like a great tale of redemption... have to look into it!! my best -- david

[campyfan39]

Thank you
I have a Doctorate in Christian Apologetics. It's been the most useful education I've ever had. Thanks for your kind remarks. I hope to have the book redone by the end of the year, and hopefully, Leon will allow me to post about it again like he did 14 years ago.
God Bless, and I have enjoyed reading everyone's stories on this thread.

Originally Posted by dbussell12

wow chris you're ahead of the game on this one!! what's your doctorate in by the way? im a masters in philosophy + systems theory

this sounds like a great tale of redemption... have to look into it!! my best -- david

[dbussell12]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

Thank you
I have a Doctorate in Christian Apologetics. It's been the most useful education I've ever had. Thanks for your kind remarks. I hope to have the book redone by the end of the year, and hopefully, Leon will allow me to post about it again like he did 14 years ago.
God Bless, and I have enjoyed reading everyone's stories on this thread.

I'm sure we could have a great dialogue about Kierkegaard, Meister Eckhart, and Hildegaard... and the deeper Christian texts + scrolls. awesome.

[dbussell12]

Here's another milestone for me guys -- my Satchel Paige portrait from last night. My first real foray into baseball themes since I was a kid. Taking the love of cards, especially early caramels, into the art sphere.

[ASF123]

To the original poster David - you’ve started several threads in the last few days that have encouraged people to post great stories, thoughts and cards. It’s been fun to read, and I thank you for facilitating such interesting and revealing discussions.