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	Memories of Youth

jrome

4-26-2007 10:24 AM

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memory, baseball, rookie cards

jrome says:

I had a bunch of Griffey cards that I can picture today.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/79411b0c-a26c-43f5-8ecd-857e1d922e6d/EBAEFFD4-B292-43A2-A108-20A34A877553/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.kottke.org/07/04/shoulda-woulda-coulda#27163" href="http://www.kottke.org/07/04/shoulda-woulda-coulda#27163" style="font-size: 11px;">www.kottke.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kottke.org/07/04/shoulda-woulda-coulda#27163"><DIV class="commentpremeta"><A name="27163"></A>Ben says:</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kottke.org/07/04/shoulda-woulda-coulda#27163"><DIV class="comment">My first thought was "Griffey, he's still just a couple of years into the majors," and then I realized it's been 18 years!  Probably has a lot to do with my hording his rookie cards back in '89 and then losing interest in the whole baseball card thing a year later.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kottke.org/07/04/shoulda-woulda-coulda#27163"><DIV class="commentmeta"><B>»</B> by Ben on Apr 25, 2007 at <A title="permanent link to this entry" href="#27163">12:35 PM</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.kottke.org/07/04/shoulda-woulda-coulda#27164" href="http://www.kottke.org/07/04/shoulda-woulda-coulda#27164" style="font-size: 11px;">www.kottke.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kottke.org/07/04/shoulda-woulda-coulda#27164"><DIV class="commentpremeta"><A name="27164"></A>jkottke says:</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kottke.org/07/04/shoulda-woulda-coulda#27164"><DIV class="comment">Yeah, the only reason I even noticed his home run total at all is that 1989 Upper Deck card of his, which card is burned into my brain as a highlight of my youth and, come to think of it, the first bit of graphic design I remember noticing/studying/coveting.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kottke.org/07/04/shoulda-woulda-coulda#27164"><DIV class="commentmeta"><B>»</B> by <A rel="nofollow" href="http://www.kottke.org" title="http://www.kottke.org">jkottke</A> on Apr 25, 2007 at <A title="permanent link to this entry" href="#27164">12:44 PM</A></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EBAEFFD4-B292-43A2-A108-20A34A877553/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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