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Posted By: Bill Stone

Started in 1955 when I got my first pack of Topps --I loved the aroma opening the pack and yes I liked the hard gum --but mostly I liked the 1955 Pittsburgh Pirates -I hate to think how many Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider and Yogi Berra cards I traded for my hero DALE LONG,and Dick Groat --and even Jake Thies, and Preston Ward but I did get Clemente ---and the only exception to my Pirates focus was our Burbank, California native son Frank Sullivan of Boston --we all wanted him in our collection. My first pre-war was a T210 Series 6 of Cornell ( Frankfort).