“Honey, have you seen my bookmark…? You WHAT?”

June 9, 2011

From Abebooks.com, a new twist on the old theme of losing one’s prized baseball card: Using it as a place keeper but forgetting to remove it when selling the volume to the local used book store.

THE SPORTING

Mickey Mantle rookie card

“A Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card. It was the original 1952 Topps #311 baseball card and not a reprint.  It is in good condition and I still have it.  There were three other cards as well – Gus Zernial (Philadelphia Athletics), Jim Busby (Washington Senators) and Leo Durocher (Manager of the New York Giants).  These cards are also originals and not reprints, and are from the Baseball Collector Series.  I believe these are also 1952 vintage and are in very good condition.”

Michael from Book Nation in Mississauga, Ontario

“A golf scorecard signed by Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.” (Sandy and Don formed one of baseball’s greatest pitching duos in the late 1950s and 1960s when playing for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers)

Fred from Fred Dorsett Enterprises in California


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