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Posted By: Dave Williams

Circa 1977 when I was about 14, during Jimmy Carter's presidency, we were in Georgia, en route to Florida on vacation when we stopped at a "Bargain Barn/Flea Market" kind of place.

I asked for Baseball cards. He brought out a cigar box full of T 206 (which I didn't know what they were at the time). I liked history, recognized McGinnity as the "Iron Man" and for $2 it was mine. I also bought Casey of Montreal. They were all minor leaguers.

He also had shoe boxes full of Topps, going back into the 60's. I bought the 1968 Cardinal team for $1.

2 years later we went back on vacation, I saved money and had a lot to spend, and when we got there the old guy had died a month or so before, and his son said he had just sold off all the baseball cards.

Timing is everything. One of you guys probably got them all.