Great topic...I have fond memories of "helping" my father deliver firewood
as an 8 year-old in 1976. As payment, he'd buy me a rack pack of 1976 Topps
football from the local Lawson's. I vividly recall pulling Jack Lambert and
Lawrence McCutcheon
2nd interesting memory is that my card collecting
"mentor" was a woman, not a man. Her name was Carole McCoy, and she was
in her 60s as my interest in cards was surging in 1981. My father
worked with Carole and knew she collected, so he took me to her home one
day to see her cards. All Cincinnati players! Old Judge and forward in time. I
remember being amazed by her focus and the different "look" to the tobaccos.
That was magic! Trent King