You and I are the same age Troy, and I remember the 1966-1975 era very fondly (then came driver's licenses and girls). I did not collect anything pre-1961 then, although I was given 2-3 dozen cards of my uncle's, including a 55 and 56 Ted Williams. I really didn't use anything for check-listing other than what came with the cards, but I remember having one of these in 1969 (not mine, from ebay):
Mine came from some mail order catalog (Harriet Carter?), and you had to use the extra spaces on the bottom for the expansion teams. It didn't take long for me to remove the doors, since they seemed to pinch the cards, and the "shelves" sat on these notches that would dig into the cards when they got full. Still, it was handy for carrying your cards around the block for trading and dice games that we played, or just to show (Hotwheels and matchbox cars had similar carrying cases/lockers, as did GI Joe and Major Matt Mason--all staples where I lived). Out with the old set and in with the new in 1970, but the sets were getting too large and I stopped using it by 1972.
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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