While we are waiting for this days WC results to come in I decided this was a good time to put this report on the blog. This story is about one of my best friends Bill Schnier, who was over 30 years the head track coach at the U. of Cincinnati. Bill and I grew up in the east end of Dayton, Ohio and went to competing high schools, Bill at Wilbur Wright HS and me at Belmont HS. We never met until many years later however through our mutual interest in track and field when we both belonged to the Kettering Striders Track Club. Then we were both in grad school at the same time, Bill at Indiana U. and me at Ball State U. More years later and Bill got me an interview for a coaching job at U. of Dayton. I knew he had a nice collection of sports memorabilia, but I was not aware of it's extent. Bill is a big Cincinnati Reds fan and has collected baseball trading cards since he was a little boy. Not having delved into that collection for the past fifty years, he wondered what it was worth and contacted a guy who deals in cards to see what he had. The story is recorded on youtube.com and can be found at this link Bill Schnier's Baseball Cards. This may inspire some of you old timers to go back into that battered and dusty trunk of your 'stuff' that your mom never threw out when you left home and dig around til you find that old Mickey Mantle rookie card. The first three minutes of the clip drag on with an intro, but then the presenter gets into the meat of the story. As for old track and field trading cards which I know did exist, I don't think they are worth anything compared to the baseball cards, but there may still be a market somewhere. People put a price on anything that reminds them of the good old days.
George Brose