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Posted By: Dave Williams

My sister, bless her heart, gave me a pack of 71 Topps she paid for with her hard earned allowance money. I opened it, pulled a Steve Carlton card, promptly took the scissors to it and trimmed it so it would fit in the pictures section of my wallet.

I was 8.

Then every spare penny I found went to baseball cards, football cards, and basketball cards. We'd walk through neighborhoods and pick up soda bottles and milk bottles for the deposit, then buy packs of cards with the change.

After a friend of my dad's gave me about 100 early 60's cards, all HOF'ers, including Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Clemente, etc... I was hooked. Never mind I played a game with all of them, and creased and tore them, plus initialed them so my friends wouldn't steal them....

Aside from my college days in the early 80's when I was flat broke, and sold a bunch of cards to finance pizza's and burgers, I've still got most of my cards.