Sports Collectors Digest

HANGING WITH MURPH

My good friend Scott Bullington, who runs the Boys & Girls Club in Greeneville, Tenn., asked me about the GroveWood Baseball Museum in nearby Morristown. “Well, I had heard of it from another friend of mine, who has been,” I told him. “Matter of fact, it is on my bucket list of places to visit.”

Within a couple of days, he called back and told me we were going to a special event GroveWood was hosting featuring former Atlanta Braves great Dale Murphy.

I was all in.

Jamison Pack is the owner of the GroveWood Baseball Museum. He has built quite an impressive collection of baseball memorabilia that he displays in his museum in downtown Morristown, which consists of five large rooms designed for visitors to easily move from one room to the next.

“I started off collecting baseball cards, but then around 2017 and on into 2018, I got serious about collecting memorabilia,” he said. “I displayed what I had acquired to that point

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