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“Kaline told me, ‘you can’t blame me for that,’” Appleby recalled as the two laughed. Eventually, that passionate 10-year-old boy became a sports card collector and dealer who more than 60 years later helps find Al Kaline and other cards to help fill gaps in baseball and football card sets of collectors near and far. Appleby, who has lived in Trenton the past 22 years, and wife Donna team up one weekend a month at the Taylortown Trade Center sports card shows, where collectors come to purchase cards, photos, autographed items and all sorts of
When Tom Appleby was 10 years old, he remembers opening up a pack of baseball cards and finding his Detroit Tigers hero Al Kaline. He was so excited that he ran out the front door of the Wyandotte party store that sold him the pack card and into the street where he was struck by a passing police car. Young Tom suffered a slight concussion that day, but the memory of finding a Kaline baseball card stayed with him. Decades later, while selling baseball cards at a sports memorabilia show in Taylor, Appleby told the story to his childhood hero, who was signing autographs nearby.
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