The Macon Find

[geor952]

Fantastic web site and a wonderful way to honor Grandma! She will live on in cyber space. Thank you very much for sharing this with all of us!

[benderbroeth]

yeah thanks so much for sharing!!!

[Tsaiko]

I've added a few pictures of my grandmother and me with my family and some of her scrap book clippings. Not much and more to come, but look at her arms! No wonder she was such a good ball player. And she looks a little like Babe Ruth, doesn't she?
Click on the individual photos for the captions.

Thanks,

[John V]

Great story.

[Ladder7]

You've become rich and you got to keep the cards too. You've done very well and great tribute site.

[iggyman]

This thread definitely gets my vote for "Net54 all-time favorite thread." We have a winner! Tell him what he's won Leon!

Excuse me while I get teary eye but keeping this collection together in memory of your grandmother is just beyond incredible. Some bidder like myself, would have purchased the lots (which would probably have been grouped together). I'd have kept what I needed and sold the rest off; not really caring where (or how) they came from. End of story and end of collection, plus the money gained would have been gone by now. Yet, like a Walt Disney fairy tale, this moment in time memory is still so alive.

Lovely Day...

[JohnP0621]

This story and tribute is worth more than any auction house could have made for you. I can tell how much you loved your Grandmother by yor tribute to her and I am sure that you would have regreted it for a long time had you sold her(your) cards. Thanks for sharing her story with us. I enjoy stories like this as much as I like collecting the cards. Do any of the cards have rare backs and do you have photos of them posted. I love to see the backs as much as the fronts.

Thanks again
John Perrotta

[ethicsprof]

a wonderful story.
your heart for your grandmother and your own caring articulation of what
she offered you and now what you offer us is most moving.
thank you for bringing us into the best of what this hobby offers.

all the best,
barry

[Tsaiko]

Thanks so much guys. Yea Jason, now that you mention it, I can see that being Evers. She seemed to like Evers, so possibly. I don't know of any card with that pose though, so I'll chalk it up to my grandma's imagination.
Thanks for the kind words David and Barry. Oh, and Rich V, sorry I missed your response before, I love all those southern minor league cards.