Weird Collector Stories

[skyking26]

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I personally don't know how Don felt but the seller had a ton of signed Mattingly items.

Jim

I'm sure Don did not know about it. I know if my daughter was married to a ballplayer I wouldn't be out hawking his stuff like that, but that is just me...

[joelsabi]

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I personally don't know how Don felt but the seller had a ton of signed Mattingly items.

Jim

LOL. This is priceless story if youre a Mattingly fan.

[joelsabi]

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As far as weird pieces of sports memorabilia go, I think nothing tops Ty Cobb's false teeth which currently reside in the Hall of Fame Museum.

Along these lines. The infamous hemroids gloves as told by member DonFan23

http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=18160&page=2&highlight=liver

[joelsabi]

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Here is my favorite Mattingly story. Dont thinks its weird but worth a read.
As told by member BernBabyBern.

http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=13683&page=3&highlight=hotel+mattingly

[godwulf]

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Metsbats' story about getting the wrong bat in the mail reminded me of something that happened to me about ten years ago.

I'd ordered three bats from Rob Wochnick at Sports Warehouse, and I received the box at my work address. Two of the bats were right, but the third was not the bat I ordered, being a black Cooper with the name "Booger Munoz" inscribed on it.

I walked out of my office with the bat in my hands, and said, "Who the Hell is Booger Munoz?" Some of my co-workers gathered round, and someone speculated that, considering the player's name, "that might not all be pine tar on the handle".

Anyway, "Booger Munoz" became a sort of running joke in the office, which some long-time employees still refer to. I now have a collection of Pedro "Booger" Munoz cards on my office wall. I've come close to buying a Munoz jersey a couple of times, to hang in the office as a gag, but the bidding always goes higher than I want to pay for a joke.

[joelsabi]

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Joel,
Do you have a photo of the debri.

2 weeks of vacation at home allowed me to clean up areas i usually dont get to and i found a photo of the debri in the display case. its on the bottom row on the far right. the gentleman in the photo is the owner of all the items in the display case.

[frikativ54]

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2 weeks of vacation at home allowed me to clean up areas i usually dont get to and i found a photo of the debri in the display case. its on the bottom row on the far right. the gentleman in the photo is the owner of all the items in the display case.

Wow, I don't know how I could live with myself if I owned plane-crash debris. Something about being "that close" to a player makes me uncomfortable. After all, shouldn't these guys have a private space? The plane debris is worse than players' underwear IMO.

[yanks12025]

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Plane debri is kinda bad and also the watch that the one guy was wearing when he died, knowing thats the time that he passed away at. But i think it would be kinda cool to own the gun that John wilkes Booth used to shoot Lincoln or the rifle used by the mystery man hiding in the grassy nole that shot the magic bullet in JFK's assassination.

[skyking26]

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But i think it would be kinda cool to own the gun that John wilkes Booth used to shoot Lincoln or the rifle used by the mystery man hiding in the grassy nole that shot the magic bullet in JFK's assassination.


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[yanks12025]

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skyking26,

I know its weird but its all about it being apart of american history.

[both-teams-played-hard]

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But i think it would be kinda cool to own the gun that John wilkes Booth used to shoot Lincoln or the rifle used by the mystery man hiding in the grassy nole that shot the magic bullet in JFK's assassination.

Oswald wasn't behind the grassy knoll, he shot Kennedy from a window in the school book suppository.

[yanks12025]

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I know both-teams-played-hard, its always been rumored that there was a second gunmen in the grassly nole.

[TFig27]

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Oswald wasn't behind the grassy knoll, he shot Kennedy from a window in the school book suppository.

The suppository? Sounds like a dirty job.

[frikativ54]

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The suppository? Sounds like a dirty job.

Man, I just can't stop laughing!!!

[frikativ54]

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Man, I just can't stop laughing!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppository