I remember growing up in a small town called Coopersville Mi until age 8. We would ride our bikes to Main St. and buy packs at the Quik Stop with Slush Puppies and Fleer Quicksand gum on allowance day.
After moving to Lansing in 82’ my mom would sit outside of a tiny shop called The Sports Collector Dugout run by a shady guy named Elliott and his wife while my brother and I were in. The shop had a permanent haze of smoke from Elliott and smelled horrible. He didn’t care about the kids in the shop while telling his secrets and spent the day talking to friends about his many exploits of ripping off buyers and sellers for braggadocio. I still have all my wax wrappers as I saved everything and they are all scalded from resealing poorly with an iron. I never knew a thing.
Thank god for the 1983 Michigan Topps packs, those were the first ones I would ever find a good card in. Amazing the stuff you just completely overlook as a kid.
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- Justin D.
Player collecting - Lance Parrish, Jim Davenport, John Norlander.
Successful B/S/T with - Highstep74, Northviewcats, pencil1974, T2069bk, tjenkins, wilkiebaby11, baez578, Bocabirdman, maddux31, Leon, Just-Collect, bigfish, quinnsryche...and a whole bunch more, I stopped keeping track, lol.
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