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W.M.I started collecting cards in 1974 at the age of 12 the same time I became interested in baseball. The 1974 set is still my favorite set and my favorite baseball card is still the 1974 Hank Aarron home run king card. I bought my cards at the Virginia Beach Virginia Little league field and Woolworths at Pembroke Mall in V.A. Beach. In 1975 we moved to San Diego California and somehow I got a hold of a collectors publication that came out in news print I think it was the Trader Speaks, from that publication I ordered some 1951 and 1955 Bowman baseball cards and from then on I was hooked on old cards. In the summer of 1975 I went to a baseball card show at the Holiday Inn in Mission Valley (San Diego) and I saw the most beautiful and oldest cards I had ever seen t206's, I bought ten for a dollar a piece and since then I have never stopped buying them. My collection now consists of complete sets from the sevinties and many vintage cards from the late 19th century and from the early 20th century. I read many hobby publications in the 1980's and 1990's ,( what ever happened to Renatta Gallasso?) In 1999 I discovered the Full Count web site and then this one I read this one always and sometimes post and I am always impressed by the knowledge of those that post on this board. And for Dan Koochin aka Ty Cobb I often drink coffee with Willie O' Ree what a great human being he is.