Welcome to the Dirt Show. In my letters, I'm always asked about things that are on my wall,

pictures and signatures and paintings and memorabilia and so everything often I like to do a show

where I give my viewers and my listeners an inside view into my collection. I'm a collector.

From the time I was a kid, I collected string and you know you name it. I collected a collect

comic books. I collected back bottle tops. I collected everything you can imagine and I've

continued to collect all my life when I was a kid. Of course, I had no money. So the only

things I was able to collect were comic books that cost the dime. I wish I had held on to my

early Superman and Captain Marvel comics but my mother threw them all out as she did my

baseball cart collection and my little autograph book. I had a little spiral note pad

in which I got the autographs of baseball players mostly Brooklyn Dodgers because I went to

high school four blocks away from Evans Field. I went to high school on President Street and

Bedford Avenue and Evans Field was on Bedford Avenue and so I would go to the games and get

autographs. Sometimes we would meet to players like Carl Ferrell at the subway station and we

would walk with them to the stadium and then he would sign our little books. We all had little

spiral notebooks and I had all the Dodger signatures in them and my mother threw them out. Somebody

once got me a shirt saying I used to be a millionaire but then my mother threw out my baseball

cart so I liked that shirt because that reflects. I'm not a millionaire when it comes to collecting

sports memorabilia but I have a really really nice sports collection and let's talk about that

a little bit because it reflects the history of the United States. For example the first thing I'm

going to show you is a signed baseball signed by all the players who went to play in Japan in 1933.

Number 33 is just eight years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and seven years before

was six years before the beginning of the Second World War but an American baseball team was

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