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Moving through the years to a new decade today. I did not have a baseball relationship with my Dad. He wasn't interested in the game and could care less about my cards. When I played ball in school, it was a nuisance for him to pick me up after games so often I had to bum rides with teammates or the coach. It wasn't until a few years before he passed that he began to take an interest in baseball. After wintering in Gainesville, Florida a few years, he started attending some spring training Tigers games in Lakeland. Around that time he gave me a box of beat up cards that a tenant had left behind in one of the apartment buildings he managed. Those were the only cards I ever got from my parents. I lost my Dad in 2010 to pulmonary fibrosis. He was in Florida for the winter and never came back home. My youngest sister and I flew down to see him just before he passed. He was 71. Here are nine of my cards from 2010.

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2010 Topps #409B Richie Ashburn SP (A veteran short print from 2010 Topps.)
2010 Topps Chrome Blue Refractors #165 Derek Jeter
2010 Topps Factory Set Wal-Mart Mantle Chrome Gold Refractors #1 Mickey Mantle (Another Mantle bonus that came in my Topps Factory set. I've always liked to pick up the factory set for the bonus cards.)

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2010 Topps Heritage #411 Andy Pettitte/Jorge Posada/Derek Jeter/Mariano Rivera (The Core Four. This card has skyrocketed in the past year. I pulled it out of my "2010 commons box" to scan it and then sleeved it and put it in my fireproof safe when I was done.)
2010 Topps Heritage #469 Derek Jeter AS SP
2010 Topps Peak Performance Relics #RHE Rickey Henderson B

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2010 Topps Sterling Legendary Leather Relics Five 10 #LLR12 Carl Yastrzemski (This card was one of five cards given to me by a very generous Beckett member who was extremely pleased with the signature graphic I designed for him.)
2010 Topps Sterling Legendary Leather Relics Triple #LLR17 Johnny Bench (Another card I got from former member dbrookard. Derek made his own HOF packs out of cards that he was disposing of and he put four HOFer cards in a pack including one relic card (total bv over $100 I believe) and sold them for $25 each. I bought two packs and this card was in one of the packs.)
2010 Topps Tribute Autograph Relics #GC2 Gary Carter