Remember the good old days when............

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Originally Posted by Joshwesley

Walking into " big league baseball" in 1994 in mobile Alabama and seeing a big thick, glass fire proof glass with a t206 Wagner in it...

I used to look at it for what seemed like hours..

The owner of that shop won a contest by painting a duck and the USPS used it as their duck stamp for years.. He retired, started his own card shop and it was beautiful... Was like a high end jewelry store.

He has high end cards from every sport/memorabilia etc...

The crash got him as well.... I quit, after the crash and in middle school...'so I had other new interests and then pick it back up 20 years later last April while hanging out in the hospital after the birth of my first child.

I found this website by mistake, started reading, and have been hooked ever since.

Good stuff. I remember my first pack of cards, 1986 Fleer in a May Day basket, pulling a Griffey in my first 1989 Upper Deck pack, the day in 1988 when I got a shoebox of cards from a relative with a 1968 Mantle, hundreds of 1971 Topps with Aaron and Clemente and so many others. Now I get to collect with my kids and it is great but so much different than then