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Posted By: barry arnold

Great stuff TREX Ted and others.

since we're really telling our stories, let me tell you 2 ways we won
baseball cards down here in West Florida.
Believe it or not, when i was in elementary school, we had little plastic baseball players (like those green army men of old)that we would name
Aparicio,Kubek,Boog Powell,Dick Groat,etc., stand them up, shoot
them with marbles, and get a card if we knocked the most down.
Thinking about my doing the marble thing does sound dinosauresque.
Like a li'l rascals episode.

As i look back on it, the next 'sport' even seems more odd. During my
little league years, we'd have ping pong championships; one of use would
usually be the Yankees, the other the Dodgers. Whoever won the game got--
guess what--a baseball card. I still remember Amalflitano (sp?);
I remember winning it, because none of us could say the name---
now i can't even spell it.

I guess no matter what we were doing back then, we wanted a CARD.
At least some things never change as we grown older.

great fun, TREX Ted.

tbarry