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Old 08-13-2020, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by 2dueces View Post
Went around the neighborhood getting glass pop bottles
for the (I think it was $.02) so I could buy $.5 packs of
1966 Topps baseball and Monster Laffs. Traded with friends
To make whole sets. If I remember no card was valued
More than others. Mantles and Mays were just #’s to complete sets
This was exactly how I earned my first card money. Walking down the road picking up pop bottles. I remember it being a literal goldmine to go to the park and pick up all the bottles people had tossed in the trash cans during picnics on Saturday and Sunday.
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