Wow! \u00a0What a package I received today! \u00a0My friend Kyle S (esiason14 from SCN) sent me a PSA\/DNA authenticated 1975 Danny Thompson card signed in blue sharpie. \u00a0It looks awesome. \u00a0It was one of my final two cards I needed from the 1975 Topps Twins set. \u00a0What a phenomenal gesture! \u00a0THANK YOU Kyle!<\/p>\n
You might wonder why I titled this “Danny Thompson, What a Shame”. \u00a0Back in the mid-1980’s the Twins had a give away where they gave away a 45 record that had the “Gopher Rouser” on one side and a couple Twins songs on the other. \u00a0Of course there was the “Win Twins” song but the other song was Terry Cashman’s “Talkin’ Baseball” Twins version. \u00a0I had never heard the Twins version before and listened to it over and over on my parent’s old record player. \u00a0I learned a pair of things from that song… I learned that Jack Kralik had a no hitter and there was something about Danny Thompson that I had to learn about. \u00a0The lyrics were something like “Kralik had a no hit game. \u00a0Danny Thompson, what a shame.” \u00a0This was before google so I had to look it up in a couple Twins almanac type books I had. \u00a0I learned that Danny passed away in a truly sad manner, succumbing to leukemia.<\/p>\n
This is my very first Danny Thompson autographed card for my collection. \u00a0Thanks again Kyle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wow! \u00a0What a package I received today! \u00a0My friend Kyle S (esiason14 from SCN) sent me a PSA\/DNA authenticated 1975 Danny Thompson card signed in blue sharpie. \u00a0It looks awesome. \u00a0It was one of my final two cards I needed from the 1975 Topps Twins set. \u00a0What a phenomenal gesture! \u00a0THANK YOU Kyle! You might … Continue reading “Danny Thompson, What a Shame”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift","category-topps-twins-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}