Those came out of left field.
Melissa Brodt said she was remodeling her Iowa home when she found roughly 1,600 baseball cards from the 1970s and 1980s glued on one of the bedroom’s walls. Though there were not any valuable cards among the lot, a number of familiar faces could still be made out, including Mike Schmidt, George Brett, and Whitey Herzog, Brodt said Tuesday.
“We’re not really baseball fans, so I didn’t really know what I was looking at, but lots of friends said, ‘Oh, I know that guy,'” she told CNN on Tuesday.
Brodt said she got in touch with the original owner’s son, Chris Nelson, 44, who said he was “absolutely obsessed with baseball” in the late 1980s and decided to decorate one of his bedroom walls with his card collection. When the room was redecorated some time later, Nelson and his parents nailed some painted roof shingles over the cards.
The wall and its baseball cards’ fate is currently undecided. Brodt said her son attempted to remove some of the cards from the wall but ended up tearing them from their cardboard backing.
Brodt’s family has no interest in keeping the cards, but she would “love for somebody to come in and take it if they think it’s useful,” she said.
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Nelson said while he doesn’t care whether the wall is preserved, its discovery did bring back fond memories of his parents, both of whom died last year.
