I got started collecting cards after purchasing a Hygrade Collector's Kit at a school book fair in the 3rd or 4th grade. The kit came with a price guide, a small HoF set that was green bordered and several other reprints of key cards, along with a binder and some 9 pocket sheets. From that point I was hooked and would beg my parents to take me to the store to get some packs of 1987 Topps baseball. I thought it was the greatest thing in the world and felt a since of accomplishment when I completed the set back then. Of course, I can look back and laugh because of the OVERproduction of those cards, but it takes me back in time when I see a stack of 1987 cards and just thumb thru them.
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