(The giveaway results for the 2008 Heritage black back cards are at the end of this post). I mentioned yesterday that I added the 1970 Topps Tommy Davis card to my collection at the card show on the day that he passed. It sometimes takes the death of a ballplayer for me to realize how many connections I've made to that player through my collection. Although Tommy Davis' best days as a player were with the Dodgers, that was before my time, and I'm pretty sure I never saw him play a single game even though he lasted well into the 1970s. But those connections are still there, it was never more apparent yesterday. For example, I walked into my card room last night and looked to the far wall where some binders are stacked on the floor. On top of those binders are some Jay Publishing Dodgers photos that I received a couple of years ago. I've been recently getting those photos into a binder. But the ones that have been mounted I still need to decide what to do. At t...
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