Joe Torre elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

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7. I was so lucky as a kid. I wound up seating the baseball scouts who came to

evaluate the minor leaguers and many of them were former players themselves, so I met a lot of them. (Harmon Killebrew, Enos Slaughter, Duke Snider and a few other famour ones) one day I met this guy Earl Johnson picthed for the 1946 REd Sox on their World Series team that year. We got to talking and I told him I knew that about him and he asked why. I told him I came from Germany and mom didn't believe in TV so I read a LOT of baseball stuff and collected baseball cards. He told me had a box of cards in his parents attic and they just died and he wanted to get rid of them. (about 3,000 cards) So he asked me if I wanted them and of course I did. In there, there were old cigar cards and cards from the 40's and 50's. When ever I needed money for college, I sold cards. It helped me get my BA.