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Posted By: Scott Forrest

just so no one gets us confused.

My first football pack was '67 Philly Gum and it had a Dan Reeves rookie. Being a huge Cowboy fan (hey, don't throw any rotten fruit at me) I was very happy. Over thirty years later I attempted to rebuild my '67 Cowboys subset and discovered ebay. Well, the set is now matted and framed in my hallway, but along the way I met '50s Bowman football, and eventually pre-wwI tobacco cards. I still love the Philly Gum football cards, and the mid-60's Topps baseball, since that's what I grew up on. At some point I would like to own complete mid-grade sets of all of them.

Regarding the off-issues Scott mentioned, I wish we had gotten some of those in hickville where I'm from. I collected the hell out of the "Green Hornet" and "Batman" cards, but we didn't see much other than that as far as non-football/baseball. Heck, we didn't even get basketball or hockey cards until the '70s.

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We had all those monster stickers and caricature hot rod cards (also with monsters). I'm embarrassed to admit I collected those.