box o stuff giveaway

[jlzinck]

Box was mailed to dashcol on Saturday

Here is what I grabbed from the box. I removed some real low end inserts and nobody RC and added Refractors and SN cards as well











I have an Elias auto/relic that the Red looks good with.
The triple auto with Westmoreland is a classic "What could have been"
I grabbed with Merrifield for a young man I trade with on Twitter. his collection consists of 2 players. Merrifield and Harrison Butker.

The Sacagawea card holds a special place for me and here is why...

In 2000 they released a $1 Sacagawea coin....

Back in April 2000 my mom was admitted to the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, one of the neighborhoods of Boston.
My mom had HORRIBLE COPD, asthma and emphysema. It 1st showed signs in 1984, She quit smoking in 1991 the year she became steroid dependent. The VAST majority of people get somewhat better when they quit smoking but she didn't. She got progressively worse and worse. She would go to the ER, stay for a few days. Then maybe to rehab and then home.
Well this stay was different. A few days into the stay I was called to the hospital. My mom wasn't getting out. The disease had ravaged her body for too long and it was time.
After all the sadness she started to have people come say "goodbye" Family and friends came by, Brought all sorts of food and treats and generally had a lot of laughs while saying goodbye.
So one day I went in and brought her a few scratch tickets, some magazines and probably some food. I had given her one of these coins to scratch the tickets with.
She fell asleep and people come and went and my mom woke up and she was uncomfortable because of the catheter. She wiggled out of the bed to stand up to relieve the pain.
When she stood the coin fell to the floor. My aunt Joan started laughing hysterically and said "The coin fell out of her Lucy". That was the word she used for women's parts.
We all got a good laugh. It was renamed the "Lucy Coin" I still have the Original Lucy coin but also bought a bunch more to give to people when they needed a laugh at a tough time.