My greatest memories of the hobby are going to my uncle's card shop as a kid in the mid-'80s. We lived in a major college town and he was the first shop to open (it swelled to around 10 by the early '90s). He always gave me 50% off, and since I primarily got my money by mowing a handful of cemeteries at $20 a pop, that made a big difference in what I could buy.
I was out of the hobby for 30 years but returned in late '23. My uncle got out of the business 20 years ago and isn't in great health, but we've reconnected through my pickups. I got married two years ago and he gave me a super-clean 1980 Topps baseball set where the Rickey graded an 8. It was my favorite gift.
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• Collecting Indianapolis-related pre-war and rare regionals, along with other vintage thru '80s
• Successful deals with Kingcobb, Harford20, darwinbulldog, iwantitiwinit, helfrich91, kaddyshack, Marckus99, D. Bergin, Commodus the Great, Moonlight Graham, orioles70, adoo1, Nilo, JollyElm, DJCollector1
Last edited by Brent G.; 04-18-2025 at 01:49 PM.
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