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Coming hard with a banger to start. Nice!!Just jumping on this thread 220 pages in. Some cool stuff I've never seen.
I really only collected baseball as a kid (mid 80s) but am now mostly a basketball collector, with St. Louis Cardinals refractors, Memphis Grizzlies #d Prizm, and Florida Gators (my undergrad degree) across all sports as "always intrested" kind of stuff. Going to contribute random stuff to this thread.
First, maybe my favorite card ever for a myriad reasons. I pulled this myself the year the set was released (so either fall '00 or spring '01).
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Very sad what happened to him after a HOFish type start to his career. He did however make a HOF which was the Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I used to listen to him and Joe Tait on Cleveland's WWWE AM station in the 70s. That station was a real flamethrower as it came in at night in upstate NY like it was a local station. THe Indians, the Cavs and the ever contorversial Pete Franklin was my night time radio entertainment "back in the day".
Very sad what happened to him after a HOFish type start to his career. He did however make a HOF which was the Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I used to listen to him and Joe Tait on Cleveland's WWWE AM station in the 70s. That station was a real flamethrower as it came in at night in upstate NY like it was a local station. THe Indians, the Cavs and the ever contorversial Pete Franklin was my night time radio entertainment "back in the day".
He got hit in the face with a line drive, if I remember correctly. Came back from that, but only as a reliever.
Met him and Feller along with Corey Snider and Pat Corrales in 1986 at a meet the Indians night. Sponsored by the Canton police boys club. Have Herbs auto on a meal ticket complete with gravy stain. LOL