While
checking to see what sites could be included in the [A Sunday Drive] on
AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles for this week a couple of days ago, I ran across a
site that is mostly about collecting baseball cards. This brought up memories of my own long lost
collection.
No,
I do not know if any of the over 600 [Topps] cards that I had from the 1960s
and early 1970s would be very valuable now.
Nonetheless, they were precious to me.
One
of the things that made them so special was that I had at least one card of
every starter on the [1967 St. Louis Cardinals], who beat [Carl Yastrzemski],
who I also had a card of, and the Boston Red Sox in the World Series that year. For there was Lou Brock in left field, Curt
Flood in center, Roger Maris in right, Orlando Cepeda at first base, Julian
Javier at second, Mike Shannon at third, Tim McCarver was catching and Bob Gibson,
Steve Carlton and Nellie Briles were the main starting pitchers.
Yeah,
there was someone playing shortstop for the Cardinals that year, but I couldn’t
remember his name to save my soul when I was thinking about my card collection
while waiting for sleep to come later that night. I even tried going through the alphabet and
thinking of names that started with each letter, which has appeared to jog my
memory in the past. Nope, not that
night.
I
finally asked for some help, but none was forthcoming. That is, at least not until 15-20 minutes
later, which is when, “Dal Maxvill,” came to mind (so to speak). For I want to believe that it was actually
our Heavenly Father who told me who was playing shortstop for my beloved
Cardinals in 1967.
If
asked, the vast majority of professing Christians would insist that what I
experienced was nothing more than merely a temporary gap in my memory, and that
the Lord God Almighty has better things to do than answer stupid questions like
that—even if He was inclined to still seek to communicate with us directly these
days. Where would you want the line
drawn between what He would care to get involved in and what He would not?
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