I'll vote for the many laughs (regardless of intentionality) Spaulding has provided!

HOLD UP

I think Dr. Ken stalked me when I was younger. In fact, I am positive of this.

My brother and I had about $75 to spend to complete our sets and get maybe 1 good card. So the Pete Rose ones were about $40 and we'd get one each year. He still has all those. They are worth less now than they were then I think.

But we have complete sets from Topps from 1975-1984 or so.

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Hi, tommy.

Your car needs an oil change.

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Yeah, I did that, too: completing my set, which was arduously collected over the summer, 15 cards at a time. I usually bought one "valuable" one, too, often a 1950s White Sox card.

Once Fleer and Donruss came in '81 (I think), it was still cool, but a few years later, everyone was making cards, and I bowed out. Plus, very few chicks at card conventions (not that it would have remotely mattered for me).

tommy is a bit.

tommy is a real guy.

I know him indirectly. I mean, besides the stalking part.

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Ok, that was out of bounds, Spaulding, no matter its truth content.

@ Dr. Ken: Those are some interesting similarities. I guess we had a mass culture before about 1998, and that makes it easier to have those similarities.

I got an autographed Ed Farmer card from there around 1982. I'd never heard of the guy but he was signing so I got one.

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This thread might need to be renamed "DRINKY".

Good stuff Spaulding.

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No way . . . I was there, though I thought that was the card convention at the Hillside Holiday Inn. That makes sense, though, because I am not sure anyone signed at Hillside. Farmer commended my brother on his Mount Carmel hat. He said, "I went (pause) to St. (pause) Rita, but I always like to see a South Side Catholic (pause) Leaguer."

My brother took me to the cards shows up north and it was before they build the L to O'Hare, so we had to talk a mile from the end of the L somewhere in the city to the bus.

We have a lot in common. Are you really good-looking, too?

I'd imagine Ed probably signed at a lot of places. But, we only ever went to Rosemont.

I'm exceptionally good-looking. But, I'm not interested. And I'm a bit tired.

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I asked my brother. He don't remember. He thought I was weird for asking, too.

I’m not interested in your brother, either.

But I appreciate you asking.

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He emailed back and said it was Tony Esposito and that he's never met Ed Farmer, but I think he's nuts because I have an excellent memory.

Honestly, I think Jesus is getting ready to come back. It's gonna suck not to be Roman Catholic.

You and I invoked the Apocalypse because we attended the same baseball card convention in 1982?

Was that in Revelations?

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DK,

Are you a La Salle Co. guy or adjacent?

Not sure which book, but it was somewhere in the back.

I mistakenly read Revelations in fifth or sixth grade and didn't sleep for a week.

Come on boys, it is Revelation, not Revelations. There was only one.

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LaSalle Co.!!!!

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I had more than one. I'm good at predicting things.

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I don't know if it is still true but a few years ago LaSalle County had the 3rd most bars per capita in the country.

You could get a license to put one in your garage.

Graig Nettles had an interesting life story.

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When Jim Barr intentionally beaned Bill Madlock...I think there's a book there.

At the very least a decent producer could make a 30 for 30 out of it.

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I think it is false because I heard 2nd most behind San Diego Co.

Were you a Marquette guy?

Nope. Didn't have that kind of money.

Apparently, I just found out last night, I was a RIF child.

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I did work a Summer at the old Farm & Fleet.

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It came up in a thread a while back, so I suspected either a crusader, or a pirate.

Pirate then...

I'm from Mendota. It's been 15 years most people have put it together if they care.

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That's actually not where I'm from. That's just where I went to high school....so the mystery continues....

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