Meow recently has been having conversations about a single potential valuable coin Meow just luckily fell into paws. Meow was thinking about grading it. But Meow has no experience grading coins and a pedestrian coin collection that has no other coins of value to be grade worthy. Anyway Meow has graded comics and sports cards in the past. This reminds Meow of a VERY sentimental story for Meow as Meows life is about collecting things for the Cat Hoard. Meow is a house Cat with no company to tell any stories to, so Meow wanted to share it here. If thats OK with you all. When Meow was a Kitten in the second grade, Meow would play games with the other Kittens during recess. Some of those games would involve sports cards. So one day when Meow was eight years old playing such games with the sports cards came across a card that had the title "1968 ROOKIE STARS". Meow thought thats cool Meow was born in 1968. Meow already had tendencies stash stuff for a very early Cat Hoard so Meow kept it. Meow tried to keep it a nice as possible over the years. But in the 70s card collecting supplies where quite nonexistent or unknown to Meow. There is a chance this card was in possibly a slightly better condition after Meow got it, but surely not by very much as Meow treasured all residents of the Cat Hoard. So one day Meow decided to ask to get it graded as Meow was curious as to its grade. Meow knew it was bad, but just how bad was it really. But ultimately it would not matter at all as it was just to put Meow most sentimental collectable in a nice safe case. When Meow got it back from the grading it was enough to make Meow teary as it was so incredibly sentimental to Meow. Now Meow can paw with it anytime without worrying about damaging it further. This is a totally true story and what makes it even better as a story is the card Meow just happened to make sure to save just because of the date listed and treasure all these years just by chance turned out to be quite an iconic card. It is not hugely valuable as its grade is not the best. But to Meow it is priceless.
Very nice. I have long contended that Nolan may have been the best athlete America has ever seen. I am a Twins fan but when we would play Texas we would change our line up and use substitute starting pitchers because we didn't want to expose our best players to that Texas heat. He made half of all his starts in those conditions. One other thing. When Nolan was 58 they had him throw out the first pitch for a game. He threw a 98 mile an hour fast ball. At the end of the game the announcer pointed out that the ball Nolan threw out for first pitch was 2 miles an hour faster than any pitch thrown by any pitcher in the game that day. LOL. I have never collected baseball cards but if I did i would start with that one. James
Fair. Random things from childhood stand out and resonate even years and years later. As I said, those were my guys. The young Mets were stocked with end-of-life players eaking out one or two more seasons in the bigs before retirement. And a bunch of young players that other teams gave up (reluctantly) in the drafts to stock the new team. Then there were an endless parade of trades. In 1968 the hapless Mets went 73-89 and finished (I had to look it up, still hurts, ninth in the NL). And in 1969 they won 100 games and the World Series. Tom Seaver. Yogi.
