Laura Marie’s Baseball Card Collection

Laura Marie may be only 9 months old, but she’s already building her baseball card and autograph collection.

Her first baseball card was a 1991 Donruss card of former All-Star Bobby Bonilla. I gave it to her to help her start her collection. She promptly proceeded to bend it and chew it, as you can see below. I sent Mr. Bonilla the card along with a note explaining its condition, and he sent it back signed for her.

With her card collection underway, I wrote to Carl Erskine, a former All-Star pitcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers. I told him about Laura Marie, and he sent this card which he personalized for her:

Then there is Virgil Trucks, another former All-Star pitcher who is 92 years older than Laura Marie. I sent him a picture of his youngest fan. He sent her a baseball card and a postcard, both of them signed to her. Mr. Trucks also wrote a note about how beautiful she is. He suggested I might need a good bat to keep the boys away when they come calling on “this future Miss America.”