If you're even on my website I probably told you to go on it. But if by some mistake you landed here. Well that's pretty cool. My name is Catherine. I'm a baseball history buff and Mariner's fan who lives in Washington. Since I was three, I have loved baseball. I went to a Portland Beaver game, the first professional game I had ever attented, wearing my Braves shirt and a baseball cap and tried to walk down to the field because I thought I could play with the guys out there. When I was six I moved to near Seattle and the M's went to the ALCS against the Indians and from then I was hooked. I try to go to a few games every year and I love to watch games all the time. I follow the team and am always trying to get more M's cards or merchandise. I love it all. Let's hope the win the Series this year. A while ago I started to really get into older players, such as the Waner Brothers, Pie Trayner, Ty Cobb, George Sisler, Lajoie, Wagner, Hornsby, Smokey Joe Wood, Joe Jackson, Bob Feller, Joe D, Williams, Keeler, Kamm, Maquard, Waddell and a lot, lot more. For my History Day Project, I did a documentary on the 1919 Chicago White Sox and what a pig Comiskey was, so now I basically only read baseball. Some good ones are The Glory of Their Times and Ty Cobb: My Life in Baseball the True Record. I love to read so combining my two favorite things is pretty cool. I don't just like being a fan, I love to play baseball, too. I was in Little League for 5 years before it got mean with one of the coaches (evil man). Overall I like baseball history the most, but I am starting an autograph collection and some card collections. My favorite current player is Gar Martinez, and my favorite old player would probably be Paul Waner or Honus Wagner. Two of the greatest Pirates ever. I really want to get their autographs, but Wagner is about 5,000(that won't work), but Big Poison and Little Poison Waner (little poison is Lloyd his brother) autographs are certainly with in my reach. I'm thinking about getting one of those autograph address lists, mainly so I can tell Hank how much I liked his book. And there are some greats like Sam Jethroe and Eddie Matthews who just died and I don't want that to happen to players I liked, so I can tell them to stay alive whatever.
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