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For a lifelong baseball fan and collector, it may in fact prove
to be the find of a lifetime.
I've been collecting baseball memorabilia since the age of
eight, when I first discovered Topps Baseball Cards at Schuler's
Drug Store. Since then, I've expanded my collecting pursuits
to include autographs, original art, game-used equipment and
even bobblehead dolls. I've also become an amateur baseball
historian, researching the origins of baseball in Chicago and
the city's first star, Adrian C. "Cap" Anson. This
website is the fruit of my labors. I hope it does adequate justice
to Anson's memory. I never expected to be rewarded for creating
it, but sometimes fortune smiles.
Such was the case when in April of this year the opportunity
of a lifetime stumbled into my lap. I was looking through eBay
auction listings as I so often do when an item caught my eye
and sent shivers down my spine. There in a listing was a first
edition copy of Anson's biography "A Ball Player's Career,"
a remarkable and rare book in its own right. Yet what had my
heart racing was a photo of an inscription on the first page
of the book. There in beautiful, flowing fountain pen was the
inscription "May 28, 1906. To my little friend Edwin D.
Wrenn. Adrian C. Anson."
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