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That's not really what this is about.

I used to go to some baseball card store with a boy I liked and pretended to be happy about baseball cards. It was right by Nosek's apothecary which was pronounced no sex and that was hilarious in 7th grade. I bought candy and makeup there. I think my friends stole things.


What in the name of Christ happened to my thread . . . I'm living in a cuckoo clock.

The Spaulding free association (and perhaps the Spaulding Free Association) strikes again.

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Early '80s were the baseball card conventions when my brother was still young enough to go with.

When he went to college, late '80s were going to The Western Open.



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tommy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
Spaulding wrote:
That's not really what this is about.

I used to go to some baseball card store with a boy I liked and pretended to be happy about baseball cards. It was right by Nosek's apothecary which was pronounced no sex and that was hilarious in 7th grade. I bought candy and makeup there. I think my friends stole things.


My vacations as a kid were going to the baseball card convention at Rosemont.

I have every Pete Rose card from Topps ever made. We knew to invest because he was a sure-fire Hall of Famer. I didn't see that tsunami coming.

I went to those.

I bought a Reggie bar for a quarter, and it was the best thing I ever tasted. I ate it in two bites, and the guy who sold it to me said, "They don't feed you much, do they, kid?" I shrugged and he threw me another. The second one was also delicious.

Just before the convention, I found money on the floor of my sisters' bedroom. It didn't occur to me that it was theirs. I spent that sh*t.



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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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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tommy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
Early '80s were the baseball card conventions when my brother was still young enough to go with.

When he went to college, late '80s were going to The Western Open.



HOLD UP

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


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Your car needs an oil change.

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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
tommy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
Spaulding wrote:
That's not really what this is about.

I used to go to some baseball card store with a boy I liked and pretended to be happy about baseball cards. It was right by Nosek's apothecary which was pronounced no sex and that was hilarious in 7th grade. I bought candy and makeup there. I think my friends stole things.


My vacations as a kid were going to the baseball card convention at Rosemont.

I have every Pete Rose card from Topps ever made. We knew to invest because he was a sure-fire Hall of Famer. I didn't see that tsunami coming.

I went to those.

I bought a Reggie bar for a quarter, and it was the best thing I ever tasted. I ate it in two bites, and the guy who sold it to me said, "They don't feed you much, do they, kid?" I shrugged and he threw me another. The second one was also delicious.

Just before the convention, I found money on the floor of my sisters' bedroom. It didn't occur to me that it was theirs. I spent that sh*t.



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.

:lol: 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).


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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
tommy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
Early '80s were the baseball card conventions when my brother was still young enough to go with.

When he went to college, late '80s were going to The Western Open.



HOLD UP

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


Hi, tommy.

Your car needs an oil change.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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tommy is a bit.


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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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Spaulding wrote:
tommy is a bit.


tommy is a real guy.

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

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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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tommy is a bitch.

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.


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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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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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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
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.

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?


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tommy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
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.

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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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
tommy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
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.

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.

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


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tommy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
tommy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
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.

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.

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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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
tommy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
tommy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
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.

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.

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.

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.


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 Post subject: Re: Baseball Books
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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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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
tommy wrote:
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?



DK,

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
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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?

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.


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

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tommy wrote:
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?



DK,

Are you a La Salle Co. guy or adjacent?


LaSalle Co.!!!!

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



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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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
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.


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

Were you a Marquette guy?


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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.


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.


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

Pirate then...


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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.


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

Were you a Marquette guy?


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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