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Posted By: barrysloate

I vividly remember I bought my first pack as a six-year-old in August, 1958, and that there was a Ted Williams All-Star in the pack. I didn't know what that meant, but saw that the card was different from the others and had all those pretty stars on it. My biggest pack buying year was 1960 when I was a second grader. I would go regularly during lunch with a quarter to buy five packs around the corner on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst, on the south shore of Long Island where I grew up. The candy store is long gone and I do not remember the name. There was a sporting goods store down the road that my dad took me too, Weiss's Stationery, and on a recent trip to my old neighborhood, discovered it was still in business! Imagine that, 45 years later.