When I was a kid, I bought cards in the late 60s/mid 70s, but threw them out, and some were lost.
Vividly, when I was about 12, my friend who lived across the street and I had a "Joint card collection". We pooled allowances, and went to a small antique shop here in town and got a HANK AARON rookie w a corner crease for 7.00. long time ago. I remember that card not like I got it near 35 years ago, but yesterday, Sadly, our collection was lost in a basement flood in his house in 78. I then bought more packs, the 78 wax packs by the bushel..haha.
After sliding again, in the middle 80s, I met Famous Neil Sakow, who had a GREAT Mantle and Howdy and JFK collection and museum here in CT. I had won a gift certificate to his dad's store a few years earlier, and Neil had a display there, and I got a 1956 Whitey Ford, But, in the 80s, Neil sold me a lot, and I gained a lot of knowledge from him.
Over the years, financial reasons have cause my collecting and dealing days to be curtailed a lot, but those are some of my fond memories, and I still have love for the hobby, especially the old memorabilia.
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