[gotopes]

I still have it, in a grading sleeve for some reason:


I was only five when I got this card, and actually heard the story from my dad a few months before he passed away. He quit drinking when I was five; he was able to quickly drop a lot of the habits that helped him keep drinking in the first place, except for one: every Friday evening he would still get the itch to go to the liquor store down the road from his work.
At first he would go and just not get out of his truck, but that would stress him out, so he started going inside but gave himself just enough time to get a soda for himself and a pack of cards for me. I remember getting them, but being unsure what do with them until I saw this one. The Angels were our team and having a photo of a player I'd seen belt a home run on TV made me feel like I was carrying around some secret magic card. From then on I was hooked, and my dad never got tired of me rambling on about player stats or hometowns or birthdates.