Collecting Baseball Memorabilia
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Description: Article from the archive of Southeastern Antiquing and Collecting magazine.
Collecting Baseball Memorabilia Collecting Baseball Memorabilia Story & Photos by Betsy Thigpen It's Monday, July 27, 1998 Coopers town, New York. The day after the Annual induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Baltimore Orioles and the Toronto Blue Jays were playing a regular season game there in Cooperstown. Fans found their seats inside the stadium readying for the game. Those without tickets gathered around Double Day Field in the heart of Cooperstown to watch the players arrive. Hands holding pieces of paper, baseballs, bats, caps, anything hoping for auto- graphs were outstretched from fans young and old, male and female. The crowd grows more intense when Cal Ripkin, third baseman for the Orioles makes his way through the crowd. While Cal is known in the memorabilia world as one who doesn't normally attend shows, etc., he is very well known for spending extra time with his fans before and after games. As he made his way around the roped off area, signing autographs along the way, it appeared one small fan caught his eye. He kneeled down eye to eye with Tom Whalen, a 7-year-old boy from New Britain, Connecticut. Star struck, the young boy couldn't answer Cat as he talked to him, signing his baseball and card. Later, as the local news stations honed in on the same incident, it appeared as if Tom had been waiting for quite some time. He was in the front of the crowd and was obviously getting cramped by the over zealous fans. Perhaps Cat noticed this and wanted to make the boy feel like his efforts might have been worth it. For whatever reason, the memory will never leave the young man. As far as Tom and his family are concerned, neither will the ball and card Cat signed. Imagine, as Tom passes them down to his children and grandchildren, what they will be worth to a collector in those years to come.
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