Bill Ripken Second Base Face Card 1989 Fleer Shirt

“Top-left corner, second pack from the bottom,” my friend told me. He didn’t remember where he had heard it from, or why it worked. All we knew is that he was the proud owner of the Holy Grail of baseball cards: the Bill Ripken Second Base Face Card 1989 Fleer Shirt, the one with the expletive bared on the bottom of the bat for all the world to see. It was the ultimate taboo, a premature interruption of adulthood into our adolescence.

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And he told me what was written on the bat and I couldn’t believe it. I went to a store and saw the card and it all came back to me. We were in Fenway Park and Bill Ripken Second Base Face Card 1989 Fleer Shirt. I threw my bat to the third base side and strolled around the bases. When I was coming back, right before I got up to hit again, I remember a guy tapping me on the shoulder asking if he could take my picture. Never once did I think about it. I posed for the shot and he took it.

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The show and tell again with the next agent who just motioned me to the front of the line for escort service through the scanner. As she kindly took my cardigan, purse, and Bill Ripken Second Base Face Card 1989 Fleer Shirt and into a bin I chagrinned, explaining to the curious people behind me that if you lose your license you get to cut the line.