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A lifelong fan of the game, my earliest recollection was rooting as a 6 yr
old (1956) for the Dodgers as both my older brother and I were Dodger fans. My father and my big sister were NY
Giants fans and we all coexisted as best we could. My mother was a fan of Loehmann's Clothing Store. The first
time I attended a game was in Yankee Stadium to see the Bronx Bombers play the Baltimore Orioles in 1960 (the only
game in town, at the time). I became a NY Mets fan immediately in 1962 and watched them in the Old Polo Grounds
that first year. Although, I liked the 'modern' Shea Stadium when the Mets changed residences in 1964, I was truly
saddened by the history lost when the Polo Grounds were leveled.
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I collected baseball cards as a kid, 'flipping' them with other kids (the way cards
were traded) and losing most of my collection as I got older. In the mid '80's, I became interested again when
the trading card 'boom' took hold of the baby boomer generation. Fascinated with the T-206 cards featuring the
players of the Dead-Ball era, I wanted to find out who these players were.
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I made my first trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame Research Library in 1988
and witnessed, from clippings and other materials, how the players, fans and owners of the teams struggled to move
Baseball into the modern era. Using local libraries and other resources, I gathered a large volume of material
that would eventually find a shelf to collect dust until 1996 when this web site was first developed.
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