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Don Bessent

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I’ve been collecting baseball cards since, well, probably when I was about 10 or 11 years old. The first cards I remember buying for myself was a stack of 1985 Fleer commons from a comic book shop. My older brother also gave me his rubber-banded stacks of 1985 Topps Football when he left for the Army.

Anyway, I guess my point is, I should’ve known that Don Bessent (former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher) was born in my hometown, and died in my hometown…but I had no idea. He was from Jacksonville, Florida and graduated high school from here. He went on to play for the Dodgers for several years. I also didn’t know that he died tragically here in Jacksonville. In 1990 he was found deceased in his car, in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. He apparently died of alcohol poisoning.

A belated RIP to Don Bessent.

As you can probably tell…

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I sometimes use this blog for more than just Rickey Henderson related posts. Yeah yeah yeah, I know…but I collect random other stuff too, so if an item is somewhat related to sports or cards, I might share it here. Also, I’ve been selling a lot of my stuff lately for various reasons, so I might share a picture of my favorite items before I sell them, as a way of preserving them here for me in the future.

couple of new PSA graded additions..

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first of all, i deleted my PSA Registry sets, i haven’t looked at them in a long time, i never got around to uploading scans (i tried once, and it said my file was invalid or too big or something, but I’ve never had a problem here or on photobucket)..

I also don’t understand why on my PSA registry I had 2 items listed that “didn’t fit” in my sets or whatever.. seriously? I had a MASTER set and a BASIC set, I know the difference between the two, but how the hell can a RICKEY HENDERSON card not fit into my Master Set?

Anyway, i was tired of it, and deleted everything.. maybe one day I’ll start another one, but right now I’m happy with my photo gallery here..

I recently sold a few of my graded cards to a fellow Rickey collector who is putting together a basic Topps graded set, so i’ll eventually want to replace those cards, unless i decide to sell everything, which is very possible, since i’m trying to raise money for other things in life..

however, it’s still hard for me to resist adding new cards to the collection.. here are a couple that i recently got graded thanks to Gumbyfan and the group submission on CU.