Like you Mike, I've had the bug since I a very young kid... earliest memories are of my dad buying me 1980 wax packs (I was 3) from his office lunch truck. Within a few years, once I learned how to write my name, I scribbled "Ian" on the backs of all my cards. I still have many and got a handful of them signed at spring training and/or baseball games (gotta love the 1981 Fleer Dusty Baker with his auto on the front and mine on back)... however I traded most away as a kid. Seeing the famous F Scott Fitzgerald stamped T206s makes me wonder if any of my worthless "Ian(s)" are still floating around.. or laying around anywhere right now. If anyone stumbles upon at a flea market, or penny/card box at a show please PM me.. I'd pay 1000 times the actual worth to get any of those back.
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