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Sports collectible finds in strangest places. Lets hear yours
Do you guys have a special collection you've gone to see, heard about, or in a strange place. Maybe If I describe mine, more of you can reply , knowing what I mean.
Ie lived in the city Im in now for a majority of my life. Well, for all my years, this small barber shop has been there. Ive never gone, but recently, to get a HC for a job interview, a friend told me bout it, and the guy had some collectibles. I go in this little place, I see Uconn stuff all over. baseballs, baseball photos, posters of Buddy Rich , and just memorabilia everywhere. Nothing super rare, but just a great little place, where its like heaven. The man wears a small tool pouch for his barber stuff and caters to an older clientele. Everyone is a friend in there, but if you say something against the Yankees, he may tell you to STFU I asked the man where he got it all, after nearly tripping over a HUGE Largemouth Bass Mailbox. He tells me he only got bout 2pct himself, his customers just bring it in, and he puts it all over the place. Such a cool guy, great little barbershop and I never knew it was there. But, today I brought him in a Slaughter movie press photo to add to his stash, and traded him a Goose signed ball for a cool Marty Marion piece someone gave him, which I wanted more. He was happy tho, I am happy, and Ive made a friend, in the oddest of places, to see this kinda stuff Anyone got similar stories on collections or finds? |
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Passover Seder
I went to one this year and one of the guests had been told I was a card collector so he brought a shoebox of cards from his childhood that he wanted to get rid of. Nothing like matzoh ball soup and classic Topps cards!
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AWESOME. What helps w mine too is he is a Yankees fan. I LOVE these kinda stories. the Passover one is just what Im talking about.
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I've had some great finds, but the most unexpected was when I was visiting an older woman and she gave me a pile of 1950's baseball cards, including two Mantles. She was a teacher and had been helping other teachers clean out lockers during summer break. She brought them home to give to her son - he didn't want them, so she gave them to me. I never say 'no' to free Mantles.
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I lived and worked in Beijing, China, for 14 months in 2004-05. As a lifelong boxing collector, you can imagine my shock and awe one winter afternoon when I wandered into one of the ubiquitous smoke shops that dot the capital and saw that every inch of the back wall — an area of about 8 feet high by 20 feet long — was adorned with photographs, posters and clippings of Muhammad Ali. About half the stash was printed in Chinese; the rest was English, Japanese, Korean, etc. The young lady who served as my interpreter explained to the shop owner that I was a huge Ali fan, and, through her, we had a terrific hour-long chat about 'The Greatest.' When it was time to say goodbye, the gentleman presented me with two pinbacks commemorating Ali's visit to Macau in the mid-90s.
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1955 Bowman baseball cards
TRUE STORY
in the early 1980's, went to a day game at Dodger Stadium with my Dad...sitting next to us was a couple from Canada and they asked me about my interest in baseball...mentioned that I was a baseball fan and collected baseball cards, and as the conversation continued the couple told me they had some early baseball cards at home, and if I wanted them they'd "send them to me" if I gave them an address. amazingly, a few weeks later, a box from Canada arrived at the door, and when I opened it, inside was a partial set - a complete run of #'s 1-224 filed numerically - of 1955 Bowman baseball cards in great condition... we were beyond shocked, and I immediately sent them a thank you letter, but never heard back from the couple again. in hindsight, I wish I would have kept it, but since I already had a complete 1955 Bowman set, a few years later I wound up selling the partial set. |
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