European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1978 the stars and set types Page 9 Byke Mcclellan Spain who would know wat Mary Throneberry hit 16 Home runs in or that Chuck Essegian Pinch hit two Home runs in the so world series f or the dodgers who cares one Man does who works in the 2a Maeoza air Itasca dental Hes i a and hcs a baseball card i Gnu started Donati says his when going Home from i took my dime allowance and connoisseur of baseball trivia at Zaragoza a has player gum cards in his collection bought two packs of they put some real Raunchy gum in with those baseball when i had ended up with five Mickey 1 would Trade them or a Dick Groat or Ted Williams or someone else who was hard to it took me most of the baseball season to gel Dick croat in i ended up trading 111 Yankees and about 14 other various players before 1 finally got life int easy for a Young baseball card there Are baseball hating by i had about baseball cards saved up give or take a thou Donati my grandmother used to come Down to new Jersey to help us 1 was at a Sopho More in High school and she decided i was Loo old to be collecting baseball she threw them at is this was the Saddest moment of my Young it was just As the 1968 sets were coming it was somebody else grandmother who gave him a second i was at a Flea Market in ij7j and Domebo Dys grandmother had a Box of baseball i was looking through them and go Donati is no Normal baseball card the More chronic of have Rotter Teeth talk in scores and Bis Wear bifocals and Wear a base Ball Cap and Genvo wherever they Donna i Hiis l Kone that far but his col Lection is up to cards and in his i Trade about Worth of cards each year and i up Tel about s9m last year in his Hobby of they Sav alcoholics Are the last to know that hey but baseball says Are aware of their you can really got carried away with this so the Way to save Money is through being in Spain Doest Moke that any but 1 do a lot of business with Hobby magazines and slay abreast of the latest sets Donati is a like the stamp collector who can Tell a Penny Black from a or the Coin collector that knows the difference Between Early roman Empire and late gotcha med special Donati knows his cards for a 1910 Philadelphia As Eddie Plank goes for about nowadays they broke the printing plate when the run was made and quit printing them rather than matting another in it was rumoured that the san Diego padres would be moving to Wash curd connoisseur Frank Donati glances through us collection with stereo headphones the Topps company printed them up As the Washington Ive got that plus the Correct set that came out the padres Are still in san in inc set had Honus Wagner included in a cigarette pack he ordered his cards pulled out because he didst want kids thinking they should use there Are Only 14 known cards today one recently sold for j dont have one of those but in still look Donati does have some unusual cards on a slip up by the Caf gum in Brooks lawrences Pic Ture ended up on the Jim Grant the correction was printed in smaller Quanti ties and is now Worth about have both Bubble gum int the Only Way to keep up with baseball 1 have tobacco cards from gum cards from 1s33 to dog food sets from Pepsi cola sets from 63 to Ive got Mcdonalds sets from Beer card sets from 70 to 74 and 1 just picked up the 1977 Burger chef and Pepsi cola when asked about his affection for base Ball Donati winces at this often asked question and the thing i like about this la that i can sit Back and do oath invested about last year in his baseball card photos for by Andy Anderson i remember seeing Willie Davis nil two triples against the Phillies in 1 thought he was the greatest player that Ever lived until in 1966 when he made three errors in the same inning of the world it Cost the dodgers the game against the coins or Stamps just dont do that to from inc Little dodger fan who went to Philadelphia with his Glove that he car ried just in Case to the sergeant in the air Force working in a dental Donati never forgot the great Low of his maybe in really just reverting Back to my but i really liked my i Mcc Lilun Wigum in in a Irwin