Sports Collectors Digest

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SCD contributor and sports memorabilia collector David Moriah grew up in a “baseball crazy” family.

Each spring, David and his family would load up the car and travel from their home in Yonkers, N.Y. to Florida for spring training.

On his first trip in 1961, Moriah was among a scrum of kids hustling for autographs when he was invited to be the batboy for the St. Louis Cardinals. For the next week, he

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