Nostalgia…

We usually have family dinner at my parents house on Sunday afternoons, and often I end up leaving with a few boxes of my old stuff. This week, my Mom had found a box with some old clothes and my old baseball card collection. I was a baseball nut for much of my young life, so there were a lot of memories in that box.

Near the bottom of the box I found some treasures that I had been searching all over for: my autographed Topps 1983 Ryne Sandburg card (1st year on the Cubs when he still played third base) and two autographed Glen Hobbie cards.

Who is Glen Hobbie, you ask? Well its an interesting story. I loved the Cubs so much that everyone knew about it when I was younger. I wore the shirts, did science fair projects about it (I think it was science fair, I don’t quite remember anymore), and probably talked about it incessantly.

One day, my third grade teacher Mrs. Pinkston stopped me and gave me an envelope. She told me this was very special and that she was happy to share this with such a Cubs fan. I opened the envelope to find a letter to her from Glen Hobbie, who she explained to me was a relative of hers. She had told him how much of a Cubs fan that I was, so he sent her two baseball cards that he “found in his desk” and he had autographed them for me.

This was one of the coolest things that anyone that wasn’t my parents had ever done for me at this point in my life. Its still one of my best memories, and it was really great to see those cards again.