Did Santa bring you anything baseball related?

[DHogan]

My wife let me get this

[CubsFanCurt]

Got a Cubs santa hat and a 3 finger Brown T206 with Cubs on the uniform. Bought Gramps a Phil Cavaretta signed ball and picture. They both went to Lane Tech High here in Chicago

[freakhappy]

Forgot to mention...Jamie, love the Cobb. I bet that will fit great in your collection!

[almostdone]

I'm sorry this isn't prewar but I had to share this story.

My wife has always been amazing at finding card for me to help in my obsession. This year was no different. Our budget is modest so I usually settle for lower conditioned cards to fill my sets but she always takes the time to find nice cards with great eye appeal for me. I am hopeing to start to build a 1952 Bowman set so she found a great example of Roy Campanella for me. When this card arrived our local postal carrier thought they would be helpful and deliver all of the mail onto out front porch instead of the mailbox (there were other larger packages that day).

Unknown to my wife inside of the house and before she found the mail outside our friendly, yet apparently chew happy beagle named Rascal found the mail for her. He chewed up all of the mail including the bills (not so hard to replace) as well as my wife treasure for me on Christmas day (not so easy to replace).

When my 11 year old daugther saw the dog with something in the backyard she alerted my wife and the chase comensed. After a bit of struggle my wife and daughter managed to corner Rascal and retrive his "prize".

As you can see from the scans the card was actually undamaged in this melee although I can't say as much for the graded case it came in.

I love my wife but I'm glad I wasn't the dog or the person who answered the phone at out local post office that day.

Drew

[campyfan39]

Drew now you have a decision to make. Take it out of the case or keep it in for the memories!

[k-dog]

I think the Beckett holder may have saved the card! If that was in PSA plastic, I don't think it would have gone undamaged! Thanks for sharing that story.

[Fred]

Drew,

Thank goodness that wasn't something that was in between two cardboard stiffners and a plastic sleeve. Are you planning on leaving it in (what's left of) the Beckett holder? That would be an interesting piece to keep like that, great story behind it.

[MacDice]

My four year old son got the complete 2011 Topps set (not that exciting I know) but the best part was when he wanted me to sit with him and read off the name of every card in the set (all 660). Favorite card was Billy Butler because his name is Billy.

[jp1216]

My 10 year-old got me one of those 15 card random packaged packs. All Topps from 2007-09. "Because daddy loves cards"....