Tell your stories Of dealings with legends of the hobby

In the early winter of 1975, about six months after we began "serious" collectors of rare top condition baseball cards and memorabilia business interests took us to Beverly Hills for a five days of meetings.

A number of prominent East Coast collectors- most notably the late George Lyons and Lew Lipset, suggested that we visit with the best of the west.

We visited with Goody Goldfaden at a coffee shop not far from his store-where we were able to purchase a great looking N 162 set for $250. He offered us five more sets, but we did not have the foresight to recognize how valuable these cards would become. Over the years we spoke with and visited Goody many times. He actually knew my late Uncle who was then CEO of Universal Pictures.

Off to Orange County. Mike Berkus arranged a car service for us,took us to lunch and we spent the
whole day with Mike, Gavin Riley, Jim Nowell (the most impressive regional collection we had ever seen) and
the legendary Bill Heitman. Bill discussed his law practice and the fact that his dad was a collector.

We felt like a little kid who had an all expenses paid trip to Disney Land. In fact, we can not remember a better day with
anyone or at other time in the 59 years that we have lived on the planet.

Whilst some believe it is only baseball cards (i.e. Boxing Card Man), to us that was the day we fell totally
in love with the hobby. That love grows stronger every year.

Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List
bdorskind@dorskindgroup.com

America's premiere buyer of rare, high grade baseball memorabilia and ultra high grade type cards. All correspondence will be considered confidential

[Griffins]

Bruce, do you (or anyone else) have any idea where Gavin and Jim are now? Are they still collecting?

[BobbyVCP]

Bruce,

Was your late uncle Lew Waserman? If so I grew up with his grandchildren and went to his house many times.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

No, it were the Uncles Albert. The Pauls wrote a song about them. Something about handsii across the water.

I've heard many varying recollections of Goody. It seems as though he universally despised children. From what I gather, those who dealt with him as adults were apparently afforded more respect. I wonder what year he opted to veto the rubber bands?

For those of you who lucked out enough to pay his shop a visit, what was the approximate square footage of navigable floorspace?

[BobbyVCP]

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For those of you who lucked out enough to pay his shop a visit, what was the approximate square footage of navigable floorspace?[/QUOTE]

The store was narrow maybe 25 ft wide and went back fairly far. When you walked in it was on the right side and just a few feet in was a desk or table you stood at where he would bring you the cards to look at to buy. Not sure how far back it went because he always would go back into another room to grab the cards. Throughout the place was shelves up to the ceiling just packed with stuff. I heard he sold all his non card stuff like programs and books to Notre Dame or some school for around $500K. Then some people got together as a group and bought all of his cards but I have no idea for how much. I talked to someone that was in on it but don't recall who it is.

[martin neal]

Bruce, you may want to correst your post, you typed in my uncle instead of our uncle.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by martin neal

Bruce, you may want to correst your post, you typed in my uncle instead of our uncle.

Missile-launch code entered ... oops, another misfire.