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hope everyone has a good quarantine mother’s day.

Happy Mother's Day!

Any great--"mom threw out my baseball card collection" stories?

Well, my mom didn't throw my cards out, but I've definitely strongly hinted that my wife may have. 

But, my mom did try to save my cards in a chest with some other personal belongings that my brother and I had. In there I had a Topps Namath RC (one of those tall boys), some '66 Topps baseball with Mays, Clemente, '66-'67 Philadelphia football, and '68-'70 Topps football.

Somehow mysteriously the chest disappeared from my grandparents home. Mom had a large family and they were always visiting my grandparents from out of town. And growing up with my cousins I wouldn't hesitate considering any of them suspects in stealing the chest.

Th esmall collection I had of cards growing up ended up with my brother.  But when I was flying in the RCAF and crew members would hear that I collected cards (mainly because I had bought some during the trip - happy days), they often told me of their stories of "Mother cleaned house after I moved out and threw out all my cards".  Two of them always stayed with me.  One was a hockey card collector who had collected the year of Gretzky's RC.  He distinctly remembered of having the complete set AND 2 or 3 other Gretzky RC.  He went back to get them once he got settled in the RCAF and found they had been thrown out.  Another was older than me and he remembers collecting baseball during the years of Mantle prowess and having several of his cards along with many other HoF from those years.  Again, gone to the dump.  To such stories, I can only cringe in the loss of some really great cards.

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