Coming up on 45 years. Concentrated solely on hockey cards in the late '60s while in elementary school, then switched to baseball after finding a stash of 150 '54 Topps inside a cookie tin in an old barn. In 1973 I read 'The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book
by Brendan C. Boyd & Fred C. Harris' and was hooked. By the mid-'80s I decided to focus on my favorite sport — boxing — and sold off most of my hockey and baseball collection to purchase vintage cards from the sweet science. The baseball stuff is long gone, and the only hockey I kept was the OPC WHA sets from the mid-'70s. Still buying, selling and trading boxing.
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