Tell your story about the cards Mom threw away

[voskresensk]

my mom's uncle always claimed he had two T206 honus wagners, one or two babe ruth rookie cards (the sporting news M101-5 I'm assuming), among other things. he said one day his mother took them outside and burned them. I don't remember the reason. this was in the 1940's.

[slidekellyslide]

I sold almost all of my baseball cards around 1989-90 in an auction. I gotta think it was one of the earliest sportscard only auctions in the midwest...Maybe the first in Nebraska?...I made good money and I figure I got out when the getting was good...the only cards I kept were 3 Old Judges, and my Pete O'Brien collection (sidenote: O'Brien was my favorite player and I figure I have probably 200+ different issues of his....I'm still looking for a few that I fear I may never find).

My Dad told me that he had collected cards in the 1950s and he had a whole dresser drawer full of them...he figured that they were still somewhere in my Grandma and Grandpa's house...I searched forever, but never found them...I think perhaps one of his younger brothers took them after my Dad left home. There is still some hope though as I recently was told that there is a bunch of stuff up above the garage that hasn't been looked through yet.