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dgiglio47
03-26-2015, 05:11 PM
Let me start off this post with a little story. I live and was born in CT, however, one of my uncles lives in San Diego, CA. When I was a child back in 1995 (I was born in 1989) my uncle got married and my family and I flew out there for his wedding. Both my mother (Braves) and father (Athletics) are huge baseball fans, so naturally while we were out there they wanted to go see some games. We got lucky and both the Padres and Angels were home at the time. We went to see a Padres game and also got to see the Angels play the Athletics in Anaheim. The Angels game was first and that was my first ever MLB game. Even though I was young, I can still remember some of it. My dad was happy because the A's ended up winning. However, to my dad's eternal dismay I have been an Angels fan ever since (good times and a lot of bad early on). I love baseball and even grew up to play in college. Anyway, I don't usually spend large amounts of money on single cards, seeing as the gambler in me likes to blow money on boxes and leave angry at Topps. As you can imagine, since I am a big halos fan, I am also a big Mike Trout fan. Therefore, I decided to really throw caution to the wind and buy myself a sweet rare Trout RC. I'd love to buy the 2009 Draft auto but spending upwards of $1,000 scares me still. Finally I decided on this beauty and dished out a pretty nice chunk of change...

http://i1369.photobucket.com/albums/ag225/dgiglio47/My%20Card%20Collection/Scan%201_zps7vyitv5o.jpeg (http://s1369.photobucket.com/user/dgiglio47/media/My%20Card%20Collection/Scan%201_zps7vyitv5o.jpeg.html)

Pejarox7620
03-26-2015, 05:14 PM
Awesome card, and even better story! Congrats!

texmcpherson
03-26-2015, 05:15 PM
Sick! Cool story OP, but amazing card!

dgiglio47
03-26-2015, 05:16 PM
Thanks guys! It is my new favorite card. I plan on holding onto it for a long long time

Hallco
03-26-2015, 05:16 PM
Great story, fantastic card! Congrats! :)!

TarjetasBéisbol
03-26-2015, 05:17 PM
That is what baseball is all about...family! Congrats on that great looking Trout!

yanksfan0134
03-26-2015, 05:17 PM
Ugh, this is my least favorite card ever. Period. Traded it away for a Topps Cano auto. Dread it every day

Halbert
03-26-2015, 05:42 PM
Thank you for sharing your mail day and story with us! Very nice card

dgiglio47
03-26-2015, 05:51 PM
Thank you for sharing your mail day and story with us! Very nice card

Thanks! Nice Tanaka you have there! If you noticed my avatar, then you see that I had one myself at one point too