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Posted By: Mike

When I was about 10 years old or so, a neighborhood kid who just had his 16th birthday, Took "large" ( a couple thousand cards I am sure) boxes of baseball cards, he had collected, and dumped them into a swamp, which was located across the street from where I lived. His reasoning " I am a man now, so I don't have a use for these anymore". Then flung them into the water. Luckily the wind blew some of them on to dry land. He knew I loved cards, and why he didn't just give them to me, is beyond me. That was in 1964. I still have some of the water stained cards. They were all early to mid 50's I am sure. or most anyway. All in great shape. So I begain running around trying to grab all I could. I recall a couple Mantle cards floating among the cat tails.

Now if he became a man at 16, and no longer had a need for baseball cards, what does that say about all of us ? Are we not men ?