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Jim Taylor was never traded. He played out his option by not signing a new contract. And I'm sure he was making more than $15,000. Jerry Kramer signed a $32,000 contract  in 1967 and you know Taylor was making more than an OL.   He wanted to be in his home town area, New Orleans.   It was the Saints first year and they wanted a home town hero to sell tickets.  He barely played and retired after his 1st season.  He had signed four 1 year contracts with the Saints for $68,000.

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@ammo posted:

Jim Taylor was never traded. He played out his option by not signing a new contract. And I'm sure he was making more than $15,000. Jerry Kramer signed a $32,000 contract  in 1967 and you know Taylor was making more than an OL.   He wanted to be in his home town area, New Orleans.   It was the Saints first year and they wanted a home town hero to sell tickets.  He barely played and retired after his 1st season.  He had signed four 1 year contracts with the Saints for $68,000.

In 1967, in fact, Taylor played out his option. Lombardi, considering him disloyal, did not refer to him by name once that whole year. Taylor was near the end of his career and was signed as a free agent by the New Orleans Saints, the new expansion team. Taylor, a local hero, had been a star at Louisiana State University. He'd be good box office. Lombardi drove a stiff bargain, and let Taylor go for a first-round draft choice and an unnamed player.

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There's no telling how many great baseball card collections were thrown away by mothers when the attic was cleaned out.

Have mentioned before. Born 1960. Me and my 2 brothers had a 50 gallon drum full of 60โ€™s baseball and football cards that somehow we lost track of (Mom?) as we aged out of the house. To make up for it ala Rosebud in Citizen Kane, starting in the early 2000โ€™s I endeavored (mostly via Ebay) to collect every Packer card issued between 1948 (Leaf was the first National set of football cards) and around 1974.

I also attempted to collect every Milwaukee Brave card issued from 1953-1965 and every Brewer card from the 70โ€™s. Aside from your regular Topps and Bowman cards, there were literally dozens of regional sets from cereal companies, cookie companies and tea companies among others.

Iโ€™d say Iโ€™ve accomplished 98% of my goal, the biggest hole being not owning Aaronโ€™s rookie. A cheap one in shitty condition these days goes for hundreds. I did have the good fortune to have bought Starr and Hornung rookie cards for around $125 each and theyโ€™ve tripled at least in value.

Naturally, I also had to collect a lot of pins, certificates and other related memorabilia. Since this is a Brewers thread, if you guys are at all interested, Iโ€™ll post an interesting (to me) card of the day .

For starters, hereโ€™s an 8โ€ x10โ€ set of portraits I bought that I donโ€™t even know who issued it:

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