Comments on: Collecting Stuff Is Fun http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/02/02/collecting-stuff-is-fun/ Politics, Sports and Pop Culture Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:23:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Babe Ruth » Blog Archive » Babe Ruth - The Life Behind the Legend http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/02/02/collecting-stuff-is-fun/#comment-8836 Babe Ruth » Blog Archive » Babe Ruth - The Life Behind the Legend Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:11:58 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/02/02/collecting-stuff-is-fun/#comment-8836 [...] Collecting Stuff Is Fun THE MAN, THE YEAR, THE CARD FITSNews - February 2, 2008 - As far as we re concerned, Hank Aaron is still the all-time home run king. And former New York Yankee great Roger Maris remains the single season home run champion. How come? It s simple, really. Steroid records don t count, people. Anyway, our founding editor Sic Willie picked up Maris 1961 Topps baseball card today, which is from the year he broke Babe Ruth s record of sixty home runs in a season. Maris record stood until [...] [...] Collecting Stuff Is Fun THE MAN, THE YEAR, THE CARD FITSNews – February 2, 2008 – As far as we re concerned, Hank Aaron is still the all-time home run king. And former New York Yankee great Roger Maris remains the single season home run champion. How come? It s simple, really. Steroid records don t count, people. Anyway, our founding editor Sic Willie picked up Maris 1961 Topps baseball card today, which is from the year he broke Babe Ruth s record of sixty home runs in a season. Maris record stood until [...]

]]> By: MacGyver http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/02/02/collecting-stuff-is-fun/#comment-8582 MacGyver Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:04:43 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/02/02/collecting-stuff-is-fun/#comment-8582 I grew up in Atlanta and my Dad took me the Braves games. Was fortunate to be there on the night Aaron hit 715. I share SJR's thoughts, sports heroes did seem to be more authentic and approachable then. Any "records" made with chemical assistance certainly are not authentic and should not be considered records established. The experience I had and the lessons I learned growing up watching real sports heroes would not be the same if they were accomplished by taking steriods and I wonder what we are teaching kids today by allowing those records to be considered when it is clear steriods were involved? I grew up in Atlanta and my Dad took me the Braves games. Was fortunate to be there on the night Aaron hit 715. I share SJR’s thoughts, sports heroes did seem to be more authentic and approachable then. Any “records” made with chemical assistance certainly are not authentic and should not be considered records established. The experience I had and the lessons I learned growing up watching real sports heroes would not be the same if they were accomplished by taking steriods and I wonder what we are teaching kids today by allowing those records to be considered when it is clear steriods were involved?

]]> By: SJ Reidhead http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/02/02/collecting-stuff-is-fun/#comment-8569 SJ Reidhead Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:59:39 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/02/02/collecting-stuff-is-fun/#comment-8569 I think one of the few advantages (the way I saw it) of living in Fair Play and Seneca growing up in the mid-1960s on was the proximity to the Braves. As you probably well remember they were so horribly bad they were forced to do old-fashioned community outreach barn-storming starting in mid-Jan or so. They would come into Anderson (closest to me) and out would come Hank Aaron, Phil Niekro, Orlando Cepada, and of course Cletis Boyer (arguably the best fielding 3rd baseman in the game at that time - he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn). Little did a kid like me realize we were 'hanging' with future HOFers. I have a book that reached legendary status because of the autographs. They were real players who became legends because of talent, not chemicals. I feel our pain. Right by my front door I have a photo of Hank Aaron given to me by the then sports ed. of the Anderson Independent. It was the very first photo of Aaron in the new Braves uniform (that horrible one) in 1972. It is hand signed, by pen. That's authentic. SJR The Pink Flamingo I think one of the few advantages (the way I saw it) of living in Fair Play and Seneca growing up in the mid-1960s on was the proximity to the Braves. As you probably well remember they were so horribly bad they were forced to do old-fashioned community outreach barn-storming starting in mid-Jan or so. They would come into Anderson (closest to me) and out would come Hank Aaron, Phil Niekro, Orlando Cepada, and of course Cletis Boyer (arguably the best fielding 3rd baseman in the game at that time – he couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn).

Little did a kid like me realize we were ‘hanging’ with future HOFers. I have a book that reached legendary status because of the autographs. They were real players who became legends because of talent, not chemicals.

I feel our pain. Right by my front door I have a photo of Hank Aaron given to me by the then sports ed. of the Anderson Independent. It was the very first photo of Aaron in the new Braves uniform (that horrible one) in 1972. It is hand signed, by pen.

That’s authentic.

SJR
The Pink Flamingo

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