Memory Lane: Card Show

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     I was 11, or 12 years old and baseball cards were a big deal.  Many of the local malls would have baseball card shows during the weekends, and the hallways of the malls would be filled with vendors selling baseball cards, and sports memorabilia.  My Mom took me to one particular show at Wonderland Mall, and we waited in line for almost 3 hours to get Alan Trammell's autograph.  The line for Paul Gibson's autograph was about 45 minutes, and we waited in that line too.  Denny McLain was also at a table signing autographs, and the line for his signature was between 1, and 2 hours.  We did not wait in line for McLain's autograph.
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-  Allan Trammell played 19 seasons with the Detroit Tigers.



-  I was a huge Allan Trammell fan.



-  The Detroit Tigers traded Paul Gibson in 1992.



-  I had no idea who Denny McLain was when I attended the card show at Wonderland Mall.  I thought from a distance that it was Roger Ebert (movie critic).











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Great Patriotic War

The USSR continues its struggle against Nazi Germany. These are from 1942.

A Soviet Army intelligence group on an inflatable boat moves across the river Don on a reconnaissance mission south of the city of Voronezh during the First Battle of Voronezh, June 1942

  

A Soviet Army medic bandages the hand of a wounded Soviet soldier in the ruins of a building during the First Battle of Voronezh as two soldiers fire on Axis positions. July 1942

 

A Soviet Army medical orderly bandages the hand of a wounded Soviet soldier 

in the outskirts of Voronezh during the First Battle of Voronezh, July 1942

 

Russian children place flowers and tend to the grave of a Soviet soldier killed 

in the Battles of Rzhev as Soviet soldiers march behind them. October 1942

 

Soviet Army Sgt. Fyodor Konoplyov and his crew fire a DShK anti-aircraft gun at 

strafing German Luftwaffe bombers during the Siege of Leningrad. 9 October 1942

 

Soviet Guards Panov and Ermakov of the Soviet Signal Corps run 

communication cables across the Voronezh river, just south of city of 

Voronezh during the First Battle of Voronezh. July 1942

 

Soviet infantry attack German position in Lozova during the Third 

Battle of Kharkov, in which German Army Group South (Heeresgruppe 

Su�d) led a counterstrike against the Soviets, February 1942

 

Soviet riflemen prepare to repel an Axis attack from across the Don river on 

the southern outskirts of Voronezh during the Battle of Voronezh. July 1942

 

Soviet soldiers play a nocturne for their comrades amidst the ruins of battle. Novoshahtinsk, 

Rostov Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union. Autumn 1942. Photograph by Yakov Khalip

 

Source: Anti-Worlds