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Posted By: identify7

I do not remember the rules, and perhaps they were regional. But it seems to me that when you knocked a leaner down, the leaner still won if it wound up on top of your card, independent of which was closer to the (plus I thought it was spelled) stoop.

In any case - the collecting and flipping of cards had the unexpected variable that the unknown and unwanted "rookie" cards turned out to be among the most valuable.

When the dust settled, and decades past, I wound up with the following originally unknown and unwanted rookies: '54 Aaron, 2x '55 Clemente, 3x '54 Kaline, '60 McCovey, '57 Robinson, perhaps some others.