My brother started around 1964, he's 7 years older than me and I think I my first pack was around 1971 or 1972. You'd think that if it was 1971 I'd remember because of the black fronts on the cards.
My brother kicked the habit pretty young when he figured out girls were more fun to play with than cards.
I no longer buy packs (ok, rarely) so my knowledge of all these shiny, limited, 1/1 and other crud is foreign to me. Perhaps that's a good thing because I'd rather chase the old stuff than have a 1/1 shiny card of the flavor of the month that resides in a TPG holder with a 10 on the label. I still have a hard time understanding that obsession.
What happens if you pay $100K for flavor of the month and the player gets popped for PEDs and no longer produces at an incredible rate that gave them flavor of the month status? Holy crap, when I think about people paying out that kind of money for shiny and new I think about all the vintage I could buy with that money. I digress...
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fr3d c0wl3s - always looking for OJs and other 19th century stuff. PM or email me if you have something
cool you're looking to find a new home for.
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