SHE'S NOT EVEN A DAY OVER 60

 

         This woman yesterday turned 104 years old. All I can say is happy birthday a day late. For you see this lady is a legend she is history,a former nurse,a mother of 3 children. She is Rachel Robinson.

                                                If you ask me she doesn't look any older than 60.


                 Back in 2010 I was visiting my friend Greg from The Collective Mind blog at the time he was living in Maryland. We went to a used bookstore called Wonder Books where I could locate some old books to add to my library of reading. Besides collecting cards I usually read a lot of books about baseball & so I came across this book written by this wonderful lady. At first I didn't think much of it but if ya look closely its a signed copy of the book by her. I went home without purchasing it I can hear ya say ya fool how could ya do that. Au Contraire Mon Frere I didn't have enough $$$$ to afford everything I wanted during my 2 weeks after all I was there to check out places like there & attend the National the second week cause it was being held in Baltimore that year & I didn't want to be broke completely.  Anyways when I got back home I reached out to Greg & I mentioned about the book if its still there could he mail it to me cause I wasn't sure if many people saw it or not but as someone who likes autographs especially from an elite class of a lady that she is I couldn't turn it down. So he went back to the store called me up & asked me what was the book again when I told him about whom the book was about he went directly to find it & mailed it after he told me it was only $10 that's not a typo folks thats what he told me it cost $10 so I was very excited to own this piece of history. So tell me my readers would ya have gotten this book knowing it had a rare signature of the widow of a great man that doesn't do many signings & now she's at 104 years young & still going strong. 

Best $10 book with an autograph I couldn't pass up.

                    As you know I normally end my posts with a quote from Rogers Hornsby however I find it fitting that Rachel's Husband should end this post to the birthday girl. "Above anything else, I hate to lose." Well Jackie ya never lost her she's been a winner Happy Birthday Mrs. Rachel Robinson!!!!!!