Beckett issue #50
I came of collecting age in the grand ol' year of 1988 and remember getting as a holiday gift that season the complete pre-built factory set of Topps baseball, straight from the toy section of the JCPenney catalogue, for $25 if memory serves. Good times.
It wasn't long before I discovered monthly price guides on the newstand and the joy of fixating on those little up/down arrows of who was up this month from $0.50 to $0.75. Wow! Good times again.
Anyway, I soon used my own savings on an annual subscription to Beckett BBC Monthly so it would come right to the front door, and I'm sure could hardly believe it when one of the first issues after activating my subscription would have been the one below, their 50th anniversary issue that you may recall (near 30 yrs ago now!):
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