Some Words Of Wisdom

When I was a kid my parents got lots of magazines. My mom got cooking magazines and Better Homes & Gardens. My dad got The American Rifleman and military history magazines.They also had subscriptions to Smithsonian magazine and Reader's Digest. Occasionally they'd come across a baseball related article and would pass it along to me.

I remember once such article form a Reader's Digest magazine. It was about Don Larsen and the Perfect Game he pitched in the 1956 World Series.

Here are two additional cards from the Vintage New York Yankees lot that I picked up off Facebook a couple months back that feature Don Larsen.

Here is a well loved 1955 Bowman card featuring Larsen in his new digs, having been traded to the Yankees from the Orioles at the end of the 1954 season as part of a 17 player deal.

Since I mentioned my parents earlier I thought I would point out that the 1955 Bowman design features a Color TV. I don't know the exact year that my parents got a color television, but I know my siblings talk about going over to friends houses or babysitting at someone's house that had a color TV and just being captivated by it. If I had to guess it would have probably have been the late 1970's or early 1980's. I was born in 1981 and I always remember us having a color TV, but we also had a little 13 inch black and white TV as well. It must have been because they spent so much on magazines.

The second card shows famed Yankee skipper Casey Stengel sharing some Words Of Wisdom with Don Larsen. It's a 1959 Topps card and mentions his 1956 World Series "perfect no hit game" on the back.

If you had some Words Of Wisdom to someone entering the hobby today or maybe someone returning to the hobby, as we often see, what would they be?

I would tell them to focus on quality over quantity. What would you tell them?