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Originally Posted by T206Collector
I spent many hours in stores as a kid in the mid-1980's searching through rack packs without opening them. All you have to do is slide the cards to the top of the segmented baggy and then you can with your fingernail slide each card down, one at a time, and read the names on the back. Then you just buy the ones with Canseco in them!  |
One of my favorite memories from card collecting as a kid was going to Meijer's one night and discovering they'd just put out '87 Donruss rack packs. '87 Donruss was tough enough to find let alone rack packs. So I started looking through them for various stars. Anyway, my mom came by and asked what I was doing. I told her - and she sat down on the floor with me as we looked through the packs for a good 20 minutes to find all the superstars. My mom was cool like that. One summer when I was complaining about not having anybody to catch for me, she went out and bought a glove so I could pitch to her.
And then I went home and OPENED them.
Mark McGwire wasn't yet on the radar so I ended up with a lot of Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens and "superstars" rather than hot rookies. I bought a ton of '87 Donruss and somehow never got a McGwire. WTF.
Tabe