The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 17, 1994 Page: 28 of 34
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D4 FORT HOOD SENTINEL
By reg avis
2nd Arm Div Public Affairs
The 2nd Armored Division
deputy provost marshal spends
his days enforcing military
law but when the day is done
he settles into a more genteel
pasttime: collecting baseball
cards.
Maj. Richard L. Greene Jr. a
northern New York native
started collecting baseball
cards more than 20 years ago
and now has enough to fill a
small bedroom--“600 cubic
feet.”
Greene started collecting
baseball cards while playing
little league baseball. He be-
came interested in the players’
statistics and kept the score-
books for his high school base-
ball team. The self-proclaimed
trivia buff admits that he can
cite batting averages to within
10 or 20 points for the ‘big’
players.
Although Greene specializes
mainly in the Topps (one of the
three biggest producers) brand
of baseball cards he has since
ventured off into general sports
memorabilia and autographs-
“to put character into his col-
lection” said Greene.
One of Greene’s prize col-
lectibles is a unique Russian-
made matrushka or stacking
doll of one of his favorite play-
ers—Don Mattingly of the New
York Yankees.
Another of his favorite play-
ers is Randy Johnson a pitcher
Dome
(Cont. from D1)
the ages of 16 and 30 who have
been neglected marketing wise.
“The babyboomers left them
behind” he said.
And although he insists on
trying to appeal to the entire
demographics of Fort Hood the
babybusters are not only his
largest category of patrons but
also the ones he feels have not
yet been catered to as those of
the babyboomer era have.
With fresh ideas the Sports
Dome not only offers its pa-
trons a unique atmosphere
reasonable prices and a short
drive but also the opportunity
to give input for changes
events or improvements.
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“Most baseball players pre-
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said Greene.
One of Greene’s favorite ac-
tivities is not only getting the
players autographs but meet-
ing them and introducing them
to his five-year-old son Blayre.
“He’s a little shy but he’s
starting to get the hang of it”
said Greene.
Greene admits he uses his
son as an icebreaker with the
players who usually have
small children of their own and
are often on the road.
“They miss their families
and see my son...I’m in like
flint” said Greene.
Greene said it helps “human-
ize” the athletes by meeting
them. Sometimes Greene will
go to great lengths to get an
autograph.
While he was stationed at
Fort Drum he would travel to
Toronto and stay in the same
hotel that his favorite team
the New York Yankees stayed
in. Greene would ride the el-
evator from 10 p.m. until 2
a.m. as the players returned
and he would strike up a con-
versation. He met Billy artin
that way.
“Just to see them eating
breakfast two tables away was
worth it” said Greene.
Greene believes that the
players are different than nor-
mal people because of their
physical abilities.
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Deputy Provost Marshal collecting more than evidence
“I can’t hit an 80 m.p.h. cur-
veball or a 90 m.p.h. fastball.
“I have respect for them as
athletes” he said.
Greene said he has always
loved baseball.
“As someone said baseball
mimics life” Greene intro-
duced his son to baseball at an
early age to teach the concepts
of teamwork and sportman-
ship. Greene philosophized that
baseball as America’s game is
a male bonding issue one that
men from age six to 60 can sit
down and discuss.
It disturbs him that athletes
such as harles Barkley
refuse to be an upstanding role
model for children.
“His was the biggest copout
I’ve ever heard on TV” said
Greene.
Greene’s ultimate goal is to
one day open a curiosity shop
where he would show films
such as the Lou Gherig and
Babe Ruth stories and of world
series games to visitors who
would sit on wooden bleacher-
type seats.
Among other novelties he
would exhibit are baseball
cards packed with beef jerky
(instead of bubblegum) peri-
odicals special Desert Shield
issues autographed memora-
bilia oversized cards and high-
ly prized baseball cards of yes
former Chairman of the Joint
Chief of Staff Colin Powell
and President Bill Clinton.
As the quality of baseball
cards has changed (now UV
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Maj. Richard Greene 2nd Armd Div’s deputy
provost marshal displays a portion of his
coating glossy finish and gold
stamping on some issues) so
has the price.
“You can’t buy a pack for a
quarter anymore” said Greene.
ecause th hobby has
boomed since 1985 said
Greene a card coming from a
$2.75 pack could very likely be
worth $30...if you find a buyer.
Greene buys many of his
cards from local dealers in
Killeen but looks for big con
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ventions advertised in hobby
magazines where more than
200 dealers from around the
United States attend. Greene
said he never spends more
than a couple of dollars for a
card but prefers to trade his
duplicates. His most valuable
card is a 1973 rookie card of
Mike Schmidt valued between
five and six hundred dollars.
While Green was stationed
at Garmish Germany while at
Meeting to be held for Ten-Milers
begins and ends at the Pen-
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World-Wide Army partici-
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the Athletic Conference as
the largest 10-mile road race
in the United States gives it
a place of distinction.
In 1993 400 teams total-
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participating in the race.
Fort Hood sent four teams
which performed im pres-
sively.
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Greg Davis/2nd A rm Div
baseball memorabilia. He has been collect-
ing baseball cards for more than 20 years.
tending the Russian Language
Institute he had many op-
portunities to visit the former
Soviet Union and on one occa-
sion brought 300 baseball
cards to give to the children he
came across. “They loved
them” he said.
While Greene’s wife wonders
when he will grow up and “tol-
erates” his “pack-rat” tenden-
cies Greene’s collection will
continue.
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the Men’s and Women’s
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with hopes of improving on
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