Guest Post, Ben Brien: A Flippin’ Daydream
In the spring of 1958 I flipped a lot of cards. You could say I was a flippin’ idiot and you wouldn’t be overstating it by overmuch. I’d even go so far as to say that I was not only the biggest...
View ArticleGuest Post, Ben Brien: Jimmy who??
My agnatic (a fifty-cent word meaning on my Dad’s side) grandmother hailed from a long line of West Virginia coal-crackers on Dad’s enatic (another half buck, meaning his Mom’s) side. Nana (Dad’s Mom)...
View ArticleGuest Column: Autographed 1933 Goudey Cards by Sean Brennan
I started collecting autographed 1933 Goudeys in about 1988. Back track about 6 years earlier, a carpenter neighbor of mine asked my dad for some help with some baseball cards he had found in an attic...
View ArticleMore Autographed Goudey Cards: Guest Post, Sean Brennan
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View ArticleHelmar in the McFarland Hall of Fame
Jim McFarland of Florida has a great day career, more on that another time. His evenings, though, are filled with his other passion–as the curator of his own personal Hall of Fame. Jim’s grandfather, a...
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