We Were Hooked on Airplane Cards

I recently came across a magazine article that I thought might be of some interest to people who like vintage cards, especially those of the non-sport variety.

The article was written by Paul Fugleberg and appeared in the 1998 March/April issue of Reminisce. I don't know if it needs to be said or not, but I'm reproducing it here without permission -- not that I think anyone's gonna care, the blog isn't monetized, so I'm not profiting from someone else's work or anything, I'm just sharing a fun little piece with some folks who've probably never had the opportunity to read it (hopefully that covers the legal stuff).

As you can tell, it would be a little hard to read in it's original format, so I've done a little bit of virtual chopping to make it a little easier on the eyes.

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Being a batboy was the best

Between work-work, and work around the house, or rather outside work around the house, October really got away from me. It's a good thing that the Halloween decorations went up at the beginning of September, otherwise they might not have gotten put up this year, as the month truly was that busy.

I had planned on doing many Halloween themed posts this year, but didn't end up getting any of them finished (insert sad faced emoji here) -- I do have a few that are half finished though, so don't be too surprised if a few of season posts show up in your respective blogroll's sometime in the next few months (I'm not going to sit on them until next year).

Now that November is here, things will be slowing down quite a bit, which means more blogging, I even have a big announcement scheduled for Monday, well, maybe not a big announcement, but an announcement will be forthcoming -- after all, 'tis the season for announcement's :)

In the meantime, I realize that my last couple of posts weren't sports related, or even card related, which I know irritates some (I know because they've told me), so I'm gonna try and make up for it by relaying a short baseball story that I recently came across.

I found this story by Richard McCabe in the 1998 May/June issue of Reminisce, and thought it might be of interest to some, especially those that are fans of 50's baseball. As you can see, it's not a very long article, but might be a bit hard to read in it's present form, so in order to make it more readable I did some virtual cutting and pasting, the results of which can be seen (and read) below:

Short but sweet, yes? Oddly enough this was the only halfway decent article in this particular issue, so I wouldn't recommend running out and buying this one. As for me, I did get a blog post out of it, which I guess is worth the fifty cents that I paid for the magazine?

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