My first pack was 1982 topps, but when I was about 11 (1985), I started collecting big time. My brother and I would ride our bikes to the Kwik Stop (on Rockville Pike, in Maryland) and buy boxes of 1985 topps cards. What a set - Clemens, Gooden, Puckett, McGwire (USA), Conseco (USA)…. We would would bring those plastic cases that held like 20 cards and we would open the box in the parking lot, put the good cards in the plastic boxes, the others in the cardboard box, and bike back with a plastic bag holding a box full of cards and a few plastic cases. They knew us at that store. We must have bought 200 boxes from
1985-1989. They used to only carry topos but we convinced them to carry Donruss and Fleer (because some years Donrus was better, the next year Topps, so on). I have such fond memories of that.
Sorry, just feeling nostalgic
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