BASEBALL! ---- Who knew that I would become a FAN

I can remember when I was in high school and we were allowed to listen to the World Series game on the radio, perhaps because our teacher/study-hall advisor was a baseball fan to the max. It was fun because we felt like we were skipping school and we would divide into sides for whomever was in the WS.

But as far as regular season went, I thought that listening to baseball on the radio was boring personified. Even after we got television, it still seemed boring to watch as well as listen to a baseball game.

But ten years ago, something magical happened. I was attending a National Conference on Aging in San Diego. At that time, the San Diego Padres were playing in Qualcomm Stadium and I had a friend who loved the Chicago Cubs. Well, she talked some of us into riding the trolley to Qualcomm and watching the Cubs play the Padres. The first time I had ever attended a live baseball game in a real baseball stadium. Well, well -- who knew.

Five years ago my husband and I moved from Nebraska to California--San Diego, in fact. I now have been to see the Padres play in the new Petco Stadium and will drop everything to listen and/or watch the Padres play ALL of their games. Yes, I didn't know -- but I am a baseball fan.

This has prompted a memory of my brothers and I saving baseball cards. I also have the memory of getting rid of them for change and realizing what some of them would be worth today. Another who knew.

So in case some of you are baseball fans and even have a baseball card collection, you may be interested in visiting the following link to a for a baseball card collecting site. Go Padres!

http://searchwarp.com/swa64941.htm