Stupid 10 Year Old
In 1962 my father bought a row home in Phila. (331 W. Girard Ave.) The house had previously been owned by a man who worked for Bowman.
In the basement were scores of unopened wax boxes plus tons of loose cards - probably everything that Bowman issued between 1948 & 1955. My father gave them to me. I had a field day opening the packs, putting sets together flipping for cards plus I remember destroying quite a few 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle cards in the spokes of my bicycle.
Probably 75 to 80 % of the cards in that basement were destroyed by me. Hey I was a stupid kid.
What I had left I sold in 1978 for $8,000.00. I was 26 - BB cards were kid stuff. Complete sets of 1948 Basketball, all the Bowman Football & Baseball card sets plus quite a few NonSports sets were in the lot I sold. As best I remember the cards I sold were probably EX/NM or better.
So my Mom never threw my cards away but boy did I destroy a ton of them.
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