An Amazing Trade with My Piano Teacher

[tpeichel]

I was probably twelve years old when I made the best trade of my life. My piano teacher was a long time baseball card collector and was working on putting together the 1980 Topps sets. When he heard that my brother and I were also opening packs when our Mom would let us get some at the store, he suggested that we bring our cards over and we would trade.

So after the lesson was over, we headed down to his basement to his card area. He jumped right in looking through our box of cards and maybe he got something good, I actually have no idea. But it couldn't have been anywhere near what I got because he let us look through his doubles and triples from the '50s, '60s and '70s.

My brother and I were both Twins fans, so my brother started setting aside Twin after Twin. I pulled a few of those too but when I found the binder of cards from the trade much later, I apparently knew some hall of famers.

I still have the cards in the same crappy binder and pages, so I don't want to mess with pulling them out, but I will share some pictures as is. The only card I do not have is the '63 Mantle I gave to my father who is one of the many kids from that era that had their cards thrown out.