Collection Reflection

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First pack of cards: 1967 Topps (6 packs, 5 cents each, Safeway supermarket, Dallas, TX)

First set completed by hand: 1967 Topps, plus many duplicates, but my mom gave my cards away when I moved out of the house and (stupidly) didn't care about things like baseball cards anymore

First t206: Addie Joss, Ed Walsh and Nap Lajoie, Coral Square Mall card show, Coral Springs, FL (1993?)

First card to pay $100 for: 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #144, Chanute AFB, IL, 1988 (bought a Ruth signed ball for $500, and Ruth card and Gehrig card for another $300 (?), all authenticated by Harvey Brandwein), used re-enlistment bonus money, also bought new 1988 Ford Mustang with cash at Rantoul Ford)

First card to pay $1000 for: Have not done that, and likely won't

Most memorable trade: Jay Weaver, September 2020 at the height of Covid, I traded duplicate 1959, 1960 and 1961 Topps cards (including Mantle, Maris, Mays, etc.) for 1953 Bowman color (21, including Mantle, Reese, etc.) and 1952 Topps (9, including Mays, Dickey, etc.), which started my 1953 Bowman color complete set. My real most memorable trade wasn't a trade, it was a gift. An older neighborhood pal (imagine a guy 5 or 6 years older, who was a role model for us younger fellows, who pitch for both sides in our games, and also QB) was going away to prep school and showed up at our house one Saturday morning with a box of mainly 1962 Topps and many older, Hardy Boys tan covered books, comic books and Boy Scout stuff. Dolph Belton is a college professor today.