A Hockey Legend and Guinness World Record Holder.

In 1960 Linda Sinrod was a college Sophomore and she had a roommate that was very good at figure skating which is how Linda learned to skate. She then started skating in 1975 and she then met the founder of the Northern Virginia hockey team which was The Washington Redcoats which was the first Women's Female Hockey team in the Washington area. Linda played 10 years 1975 to 1985 with the Redcoats and she then decided to she was too old to play and decided to quit.

It wasn't until she was 67 and retired from her job that she decided to make a comeback. She found a former teammate who was coaching a team in Woodbridge, the Prince William Wildcats. They played teams in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. She was kicked off that team because she was not competitive enough and after being with the team that long it did hurt her feelings. She then went on to play in a house league at the Medstar Ice Rink. They would only play teams that were divided up into making 8 teams. It did not matter how much or how little skill a player had or not because they all played and Linda was one of the leaders in assists and she played the game like she knew where to be before the play actually happened. There are hockey greats that play the same way which is why it is impressive to hear as to how she learned the game and taught herself to be a very good passer and playmaker.

Linda is now the Guinness Book of World Record holder as the oldest Female hockey player 84 years and 198 days old. Linda will be inducted into the United States 80+ Hall of Fame this fall.

I just got this card in today's mail from Linda Sinrod I am going to write her again and ask her to sign the front of the card instead of the back. I have been getting some cards where the players sign the backs of the cards because the cards front is dark. I will be adding that line to all of my new requests that they please sign the front of the card. Now I will be sending more cards out and of the ones I got back signed on the back I am resending and including a silver sharpie and they of course they can keep the sharpie. There is one card coming this week that has 2 players on the card and I hope I can get both players to sign and those 2 players are Julie Otto who was the Team captain and first ever goal scorer and Laura Tryba first ever assist.

This card is going to be going out this week as I would love getting her autograph because she scored the first ever goal for the Golden Gophers Women's Hockey in the inaugural year of 1997-98.

I have over 40 Minnesota Golden Gophers Women's Hockey cards coming in this week and they will be going out for auto's and the success rate for this team is better than 83% and yes there are some that can take time but I am ok with that as long as I get the card back signed.

 Does anyone still read any of the remaining hobby periodicals?? I still subscribe to SCD and I get the Beckett Hockey Monthly and of course I still subscribe to The Hockey News. Whatever happened to Tuff Stuff?? I never subscribed it but I have looked through other collectors issues. SCD is still a good magazine that I get twice a month. It does have some interesting articles about the hobby but it will never be what it once was years before. I used to love looking through all the ads and seeing the tobacco cards that were for sale. When I first started buying the T-206 cards I was paying $3 for a common card. My first Cobb was the Red Portrait and I paid $70. I can still remember certain ads by certain dealers and they included cards from the T-217 Mono's, T-209 Contentnea's, T-210 Old Mill and those cards were $5 a card the Mono's were slightly higher around $15 a card. The most beautiful tobacco card back was the T-211 Red Sun which featured players from the Southern league and the cards had the same photo's like the T-210 Red Border except the border on the Red Sun was an olive green with a beautiful back of a sunset in red. The Red Sun cards were more around $75 a card. The same teams in the T-210 set are in the T-211 Red Sun set but New Orleans in the T-210 Old Mill set featured one Shoeless Joe Jackson but he was omitted in the T-211 Red Sun set. My only guess would be he might have been called up to play in the Big Leagues and he started in 1908 with the Philadelphia Athletics but he saw limited action so I am guessing they did not put him in the T-211 Red Sun set because of him already seeing some games in the 1908 and 1909 season.

This is the back of a T-211 Red sun card and as you can see the Sun Burst. There were a total of 75 subjects in this set versus 640 subjects in the T-210 Red Border Old Mill set.

One of my favorite cards to own other than the T-210 card of Joe Jackson was the T-210 card of a Mascot from the Goldsboro team. What makes this card so cool is the bat is bigger than him and look at his pants they are flannel. These types of cards are unique and in there own little way they tell so many different stories but which ones do we believe. Answer it is not just the one that makes the most sense it is the one that best fits the photo.

The postage rates will be jumping an additional 4 cents on July 12th so a stamp will cost .82 cents. Time to buy lots of forever stamps now. That is all I got today and as always Happy Collecting!!!