Box #11045

Pudge Traveling Event Stamp Hand-carved

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PlantedOctober 10, 2005
ModifiedDecember 5, 2005
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Pudge Traveling Event Stamp
by ArchimedesScrew
activeJun 13, 2008
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For the RED SOX & WHITE SOX fan in us all!!!! Fisk Dings one against the Big Red Machine in 1975.

As a youngster, I spent my summers on Cape Cod. I am a HUGE baseball fan. Going to bed each night, I would fall to sleep to the sounds of Bouy Bell, on the bay, dinging outside of my window, and the Red Sox game on my small AM radio.

To this day I can still hear that bouy when I close my eyes, and I can still recite the late 70's Red sox lineups. My boyhood idol was (and still is) Carlton Fisk. My heart was broken when he left the Red Sox.

I felt it my duty to follow along with him to the Chicago White Sox. The more I watched and grew, the more I enjoyed those, crappy, Chicago White Sox teams. Generally rated at the bottom of the Majors, those teams made me feel like a Boston fan, again.

As luck would have it, these two teams colided in the 2005 ALCS. Having brought my wife out to my childhood stomping grounds the past few years (she loves the beach), we have met and exchanged with many of the letterboxers out on the Cape (In fact we have a letterbox placed out there). In doing so, we have run head-long, into that bastion of Red Sox passion that is the Cape. It has been (and always is) a lot of fun {I am not sure if my wife, the Yankee fan, agrees :) :) :) }.

Needless to say.............. Bets were made!! The loser of the ALCS would carve and place/give letterboxes to honor the winner (see Sox Sweep on the Cape. I LOVE IT!!). This stamp is a result of my White Sox beating those Red Sox.

To get this wonderfully carved stamp, simply..........go to an Event/Gathering/Meeting/Exchange and find WINK.
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