“Sometimes you’re told, ‘Don’t meet your heroes.’”
Starting Lineup: Tom Tresh was Ted Leonsis’s first New York Yankees card. “My Holy Grail was a Mickey Mantle and a Roger Maris,” he says. Photographs of cards by Steve Silverman.
“Back then, the New York Yankees were the be-all and end-all. The very first Yankees card I got in this group she gave me was Tom Tresh. No one remembers who Tom Tresh is, but I do. Tom Tresh was a utility player, like the tenth man. He played shortstop and second base. [My mother] says, ‘Why don’t you try over the year—you’re buying some [packs of cards], I’m bringing you some—to get the Yankees 1962 lineup?’ So I memorize the starting lineup and write it down.
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