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05-20-2009, 02:01 AM
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My mom never threw out anything -- I had a kind of rough growing up -- my dad died when I was very young, and I think she knew how much my card collection and my coin collection meant to me in those times.
She was, however, responsible for the loss of my first '50 Bowman set. For some reason she decided I ought to put them in a scrap book. Worse, she decided I ought to GLUE them in a scrapbook with that amber-colored mucilage favored by librarians and other vandals. Now the '50 Bowman cards had no identifier on the front, so it occurred to me only after having spent an evening sticking the things to brightly colored sheets that I didn't know who most of them were. A few, like Ted Williams, I remembered, so I very neatly wrote "Ted W." The others got (some future professor!) "don't no." Hey! I was eight! I made a set of plywood covers and woodburned, on the front, "Bob's Baseball Cards." I'm happy to report that they were lost in some move or other over the years. I've since replaced them all, of course, even Dick Kryhoski and Johnny Groth and Neil Berry and Dino Restelli. They're not even in plastic, but sit loose in display drawers of a collector's chest I made. In keeping with the circumstance of their original loss, most are in vg-ex at best. 
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05-20-2009, 06:39 AM
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It's MOVES, moreso than MOMS, that lose cards....
In any event, when my Uncle Chris died, I convinced my parents to have my Aunt Anna move in with us.
As a teenager in the 1950's, I worked with my Aunt in their restaurant. We had some tense moments; but, we were family and we always had a great rapport. Anyhow, when I was in the Air Force (1960-1964), my Mom was on clean-up campaign and started putting my cards in the trash to be disposed of. My Aunt recovered all of my cards and put them in a safe place for me. She told my Mom, in her inimitable Greek...."are you crazy sister, Teddy will dis-own us, when he comes home and cannot find his BB cards". Many years later in 1977, my young daughters got me interested in BB cards again. So, I went to my sister's house (she bought our home that we grew up in....Hillside, NJ) and found all my BB, FB and non-sports cards in the attic. My collection from my youth includes cards from...... 1947 Bond Bread 1948 Bowman.....just a dozen cards 1949 Leaf Boxing.....complete set of 49 cards 1949 Leaf BB & FB....many cards (no scarce #s) 1949 Bowman BB.....near complete set 1949 Bowman Wild West 1950 Bowman BB & FB.....near complete set of BB 1950 Hopalong Cassidy 1951 Bowman BB & FB.....many cards (no Hi #s) 1952 Bowman BB.....only the first 72 cards 1952 Topps.....250+ cards, including Mickey Mantle TED Z
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05-20-2009, 09:50 PM
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My mom lost it one night in 86 or 87 and went on a rampage and started throwing things all over the house, I had just finished putting together a complete 86 fleer basketball set and had them in a nice stack from 1-132 and she grabbed the whole stack and threw it, they all smashed against the wall and every right hand corner was dinged really bad, from nrmt to ex- just like that. I couldn't be to upset as she bought a box of them for me that xmas and I pulled 5 Jordans out of it so one down the drain didn't end up to bad a few years later when they took off in value.
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