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Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy
My dad.
He worked for the NYC Department of Sanitation at one of the incinerators, first in Queens and later Brooklyn. My dad was not a sports fan but he knew I loved baseball. People would drop off boxes and bags of trash and the employees would go through it all looking for goodies. Every few weeks, dad would bring home a shoebox of “modern” (1970’s) cards. Those days were like Christmas to me!
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this is such a cool story jim... wow! my dad is mets by way of queens + LI too. thanks for sharing this beautiful memory