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When his doctor told the traveling hotel executive he neederd a hobbyoutside work, Cerrone went back to basebalp cards. “I started like most people when I wasa kid, I guesds when I was about 8,” said now 62, and presideng and CEO of Dunwoody-based “Back then it was cool to have a Ted Williamd card in your spokes with a clothespin,” he said. “Looking those cards are now worth hundreds if notthousands — of dollars.
” Cerrone’s boyhoox collection included other Hall of Famers, such as Mickeyg Mantle, Sandy Koufax and Yogi But when Cerrone turnesd 19 and joined the Marine Corps, his collection was “When I left home and I joined the my mother threw them out,” Cerronse said. Cerrone said he didn’tf blame her; he hadn’t actively collected new cards since he wasmuch “My mother didn’t know any better.” One day in the late after that doctor’s visit, Cerrone was outsided Boston’s Fenway Park when he saw a vendor hawkinfg baseball cards. He bought a pack and renewed his boyhood passion.
Every city he traveled to he’d pay a visity to a card shop and add to his Cerrone is a little hesitant to talk much about the valud of hisnew collection. “I have more than 100,0009 cards,” he said. Baseball has been a part of Cerrone’w life for as long as he can remember. His parentzs divorced when he was 5, and a who was a Little League helped him develop a love for the The Massachusetts native andfan (he’s also an fan) firsgt took to the diamond as a youn g boy, and played third base through high schooll and semi-pro ball in the Massachusetts Conferencre League.
Now a grandfather to six, Cerrone has passed down his love of baseball and collecting tohis grandchildren. With the demise of shopa aroundthe nation, Cerronde does most of his collecting via .