Basement Flood

[Guest Edgy DC]

Among the water damaged items are my first edition of Gil Hodges' The Game of Baseball and my collection of original 1980 "The Magic Is Back" subway posters.

Boo, rain! BOOOOOO!

[Guest themetfairy]

Ugh - that's horrible

[Guest Edgy DC]

Really, it's my falult for leaving stuff I like on the floor below ground level.

[seawolf17]

Yowza. We had that happen a few months ago when someone who shall remain nameless (not me) left the hose on for 24 hours in the backyard. I moved all the important stuff up after that.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That sucks, mon frere.

Lost a whole lot of '84-'89 stuff (including Sid-, Barry Lyons-, Heep-, and Mazzili-autographed balls and posters, Mets Yearbooks from those years, heaps of baseball cards in shoeboxes, and some Keith/Doc/Straw Starting Lineup figures) during a NJ Nor'Easter a decade or so back... mostly because some parents who shall remain nameless had moved the stuff from my former room/closet to the basement. When I came back from school to help these folks clean, I was thisclose to giving Keith and Doc a proper burial/"gravestone" in the backyard next to my former dog.

[soupcan]

Sorry for your loss.

My comics are in individual plastic bags with cardboard sheets in boxes in the attic and all my Mets stuff is on shelves in the basement similarly protected. It was a hard lesson learned for me as well. 'Never again!' I said and still say.

[metirish]

Jeez , sorry to read this Edgy......

[Guest Edgy DC]

My stuff was mostly on shelves, but things get shuffled onto the floor while one looks for other things.

I was trying to be all cool and zen and filled with perspective and shit, and my wife says, "Oh, your Gil Hodges book got all wet."

"That's OK," I say, assuming it's Pray for Gil Hodges, a decent contemporary title. When she hands it to me and I see that it's an original title (allegedly) written by Gil, I'm all like, "Can you excuse me? I need a moment here."

[Guest holychicken]

I just called MMPS (Mets Memorabilia Protective Services) and they are on their way to free those precious little metsmories from your neglectful home.

[Willets Point]

Put the book in a ziploc bag and then put it in your freezer. Then contact a book conservator.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Basements suck.

[Theoldmole]

That's so sad.

[Vic Sage]

just hearing about incidents like this gives me hives.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Game-Baseball-Gil-Hodges-1969-/180504571759?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item2a06e92f6f

Sorry about the loss, Edgy. But I looks like you can replace the Gil book for $8 on eBay with the Buy it Now feature. Not the same as the treasured volume, but a replacement.

[Zvon]

This bites the big one.