Masjor League Baseball and the player's union are trying to renew interest in collecting baseball cards in this day of video games. I can remember the rock hard, dust covered gum and that Dick Grote was #1 one year. I was pretty good at scaling 'em, too. Did you ever collect baseball cards? My daughters did but they're in their twenties now.
Now here is subject we won't fight about. I loved collecting baseball cards. I loved scaling and flipping them. I had thousands of cards, but alas, I have no idea where they all went. I used to love the anticipation of opening a pack and looking for a Yankee.
My brothers collected cards in the sixties and early seventies some of which they still have. Our oldest son was a fanatic about colecting them and after hearing all the horror stories about discarded cards I boxed all his cards and saved them. We have thousands, box after box after box. I told him to go thrugh them and see if any of them are worth anything but he's always too busy. Maybe I'll do it and sell off the ones that are.
Herb, scaling cards is basically flinging them against the curb from about four feet away. You did it with two fingers. If you were lucky, you got a leaner which was a winner. Knock-a-leaner is trying to knock down a card which has been placed leaning diagonally against the curb.
I once was gonna trade 40 cards for a Mickey Mantle. Then, in the next pack I bought, there he was, #7.
I played scaling, excpet we called it pitching cards agains a wall. The card closest to the wall wins all the cards tossed. Most of the time we pitched pennies rather than cards.
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