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Originally Posted by itjclarke
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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That's an excellent story and exactly what I was hoping would come out in this thread! Thanks for sharing! I think that's awesome how you got some of those very first cards that you signed, signed by pro ball players too...classic move! Paying 1000 times what they are worth would still only bump the price to $.50
Another good memory for me is trade night at Jim's Dugout! Every Tuesday, me and my cousin would grab our binder and rendezvous at the Dugout for some crazy trading with a few dozen other small kids...it was special. The two things that stuck with me during my times there was winning a box of 1988 topps baseball on a raffle (wow that was great when you were only 10!) and trading away my '89 Score Aikman RC for a Jose Canseco Sportflic...I'd like to forget that last one
but nonetheless a good memory for me.