[shove_it]

You have a real keepsake there. My Kaline autograph on a program likely got tossed out with my comic books when I went off to college. There are many unrealized treasures from my youth I’d like to have back now.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/DET/1953-roster.shtml

Check out the salaries

[riverdawg]

Many of the players back in the 1950s and 60s had full-time off-season jobs to pay the bills.

I told my mother in the 1980s (before the baseball card market collapsed from over-issue) that if she hadn't thrown out my card collection we would be having our conversation on some Caribbean island.