Troops in Middle East to Get Baseball Cards
As President Bush gears up to send more armored divisions to the Persian Gulf, the owner of a baseball card store in Lawndale is planning to send a few big guns of his own--former slugger Reggie Jackson, all-star pitcher Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd and superstar shortstop Ozzie Smith.
The players, of course, won’t be boarding jets for the Middle East. But thousands of baseball cards bearing their pictures and those of other sports heroes will.
Moved by newspaper accounts of the boredom of the men and women in uniform in Saudi Arabia, Perry Dodd of Dugout Baseball Cards figured he had the perfect antidote. Last month, the 29-year-old baseball enthusiast started setting aside cards and soliciting donations from the regulars who frequent his shop in a mini-mall on Prairie Avenue.
“Baseball is the all-American pastime. I thought they would enjoy trading them,” Dodd said.
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