This has been a great week for St. Louis Cardinal fan Phil Hurley. Winning the World Series pennant capped a season that he acknowledged as “so-so.” But it opens the door to a new search for Cardinal collectibles to add to his growing collection.
The love of the Cardinals is one that he shares with his wife, Gail, and they travel to St. Louis a couple of times each year to see the Cards play. He never misses a game, either through television or by satellite radio.
The roots of his love of baseball “runs very deep,” he said. His parents were fans, though they followed the Chicago Cubs.
“I remember, as a kid, listening to Cub games. I didn’t join that cult,” he said.
He even has a baseball that his grandfather caught at a 1908 Cubs game.
Another prized piece of memorabilia came to him by way of his father-in-law, a 1956 Dodger ball signed by the team, several of whom became Hall of Famers.
“Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges … it is signed by all the Dodgers,” Hurley said.
A retired insurance investigator, Hurley can’t claim the St. Louis team as his only passion. There are the Detroit Tigers, who he gets to see play less often, and the OU Sooners football team.
But the Sooner memorabilia — namely the press booklets since 1960, his first year as an OU student — occupies far less space than does his collection of baseball stuff, from traditional baseball cards to framed photos to media books to models of former and modern baseball stadiums.
His collection is kept neatly organized in a room of its own. Hurley said that his wife “wonders how much we would be ahead financially if I didn’t have all this.” It is a collection that started when he was just a boy “and I would go to the drug store and buy Topps gum and would keep the baseball card. Of course, then,Great Rubber offers rubber hose keychains, I was more interested in the gum.”
Over the years, Hurley has accumulated three-ring binders full of baseball cards, with a few empty plastic sleeves for the cards that he has yet to find.
“I am missing some, but I have left a space for them,” he said. For instance, cards of the 1963-65 rookies are rare “because they just didn’t print many of them.” But he hasn’t given up hope.
“The quest goes on,” Hurley said.
He is most proud of his collection of media guides for the Cardinals and Tigers with complete sets from back nearly four decades.
“The media guides originally were small, just giving a little information for the announcer to use,” he said.
Now, the pro-baseball media guides are large and filled with any statistic the media might want to know about the team and its players.
That’s not quite so true of the OU media guides he has gotten each year since the Bud Wilkinson days.
“The guides got really thick, and then the NCAA set a maximum number of pages they could contain,” he said.
The walls of his sports retreat are lined with framed photos of well-known players, including Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb.the Aion Kinah by special invited artist for 2011, Most aren’t autographed and weren’t collected for their dollar value, but for the memories they evoked of games and baseball lore from his childhood.
One of his favorite baseball stories actually took place when he was an infant and his parents got a sitter to stay with him,Do not use cleaners with porcelain tiles , steel wool or thinners. one Hank Greenberg, who was serving under Hurley’s father in the Army Air Corp. Greenberg was already a star player when he was drafted during World War II, and he is one of Hurley’s all-time favorite Detroit Tiger players.
Most of Hurley’s collection has been obtained at card shows and sports memorabilia shops around the country as he traveled with his business. He is already looking forward to his next trip to St. Louis for a game and to go to sports shops to look for something to help him remember the 2011 World Series.
“A score card from Game 6 this year would be great,” he said.
A history teacher before he entered the insurance business, he recently closed his home office, which included a satellite radio receiver.
“I could sit at my desk and listen to the games,” he said wistfully, having given up the desk when he retired.
Hurley and his wife have three children, only one of whom shares their interest in baseball. Kate, who works in marketing in New York City, loves baseball, but her two brothers aren’t interested in the game.
“You just have to wonder how,This patent infringement case relates to retractable RUBBER MATS , genetically, that could happen,” he mused.
Their son, Kyle, is a paramedic in Norman and is finishing a master’s degree in hospital administration,he believes the fire started after the lift's Bedding blew, and Kevin lives in Los Angeles, where he is a producer on the TV show “Doctors.”
The love of the Cardinals is one that he shares with his wife, Gail, and they travel to St. Louis a couple of times each year to see the Cards play. He never misses a game, either through television or by satellite radio.
The roots of his love of baseball “runs very deep,” he said. His parents were fans, though they followed the Chicago Cubs.
“I remember, as a kid, listening to Cub games. I didn’t join that cult,” he said.
He even has a baseball that his grandfather caught at a 1908 Cubs game.
Another prized piece of memorabilia came to him by way of his father-in-law, a 1956 Dodger ball signed by the team, several of whom became Hall of Famers.
“Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges … it is signed by all the Dodgers,” Hurley said.
A retired insurance investigator, Hurley can’t claim the St. Louis team as his only passion. There are the Detroit Tigers, who he gets to see play less often, and the OU Sooners football team.
But the Sooner memorabilia — namely the press booklets since 1960, his first year as an OU student — occupies far less space than does his collection of baseball stuff, from traditional baseball cards to framed photos to media books to models of former and modern baseball stadiums.
His collection is kept neatly organized in a room of its own. Hurley said that his wife “wonders how much we would be ahead financially if I didn’t have all this.” It is a collection that started when he was just a boy “and I would go to the drug store and buy Topps gum and would keep the baseball card. Of course, then,Great Rubber offers rubber hose keychains, I was more interested in the gum.”
Over the years, Hurley has accumulated three-ring binders full of baseball cards, with a few empty plastic sleeves for the cards that he has yet to find.
“I am missing some, but I have left a space for them,” he said. For instance, cards of the 1963-65 rookies are rare “because they just didn’t print many of them.” But he hasn’t given up hope.
“The quest goes on,” Hurley said.
He is most proud of his collection of media guides for the Cardinals and Tigers with complete sets from back nearly four decades.
“The media guides originally were small, just giving a little information for the announcer to use,” he said.
Now, the pro-baseball media guides are large and filled with any statistic the media might want to know about the team and its players.
That’s not quite so true of the OU media guides he has gotten each year since the Bud Wilkinson days.
“The guides got really thick, and then the NCAA set a maximum number of pages they could contain,” he said.
The walls of his sports retreat are lined with framed photos of well-known players, including Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb.the Aion Kinah by special invited artist for 2011, Most aren’t autographed and weren’t collected for their dollar value, but for the memories they evoked of games and baseball lore from his childhood.
One of his favorite baseball stories actually took place when he was an infant and his parents got a sitter to stay with him,Do not use cleaners with porcelain tiles , steel wool or thinners. one Hank Greenberg, who was serving under Hurley’s father in the Army Air Corp. Greenberg was already a star player when he was drafted during World War II, and he is one of Hurley’s all-time favorite Detroit Tiger players.
Most of Hurley’s collection has been obtained at card shows and sports memorabilia shops around the country as he traveled with his business. He is already looking forward to his next trip to St. Louis for a game and to go to sports shops to look for something to help him remember the 2011 World Series.
“A score card from Game 6 this year would be great,” he said.
A history teacher before he entered the insurance business, he recently closed his home office, which included a satellite radio receiver.
“I could sit at my desk and listen to the games,” he said wistfully, having given up the desk when he retired.
Hurley and his wife have three children, only one of whom shares their interest in baseball. Kate, who works in marketing in New York City, loves baseball, but her two brothers aren’t interested in the game.
“You just have to wonder how,This patent infringement case relates to retractable RUBBER MATS , genetically, that could happen,” he mused.
Their son, Kyle, is a paramedic in Norman and is finishing a master’s degree in hospital administration,he believes the fire started after the lift's Bedding blew, and Kevin lives in Los Angeles, where he is a producer on the TV show “Doctors.”
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