Did Your Mother Throw Your BB Cards Out?

[mrvster]

and Dad got me hooked on cards cause I loved baseball since I was 5....My mom saved my cards.....She got me an uncut sheet of '82 topps as a kid from a card show in TOMS RIVER NEW JERSEY at a mall show.....the sheet got damage on it, and folded a few times over the years, but she still kept it for me.!!!.....there is a damage to the
RIPKEN on it....its a piece I will treasure to the day I die......

a story of a mom who saved her kids cards

[kcohen]

Yes, she did - either threw them out or gave them to a neighbor kid (she couldn't remember which). That's all I have to say on the matter as I'd rather not talk about it.

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by kcohen

Yes, she did - either threw them out or gave them to a neighbor kid (she couldn't remember which). That's all I have to say on the matter as I'd rather not talk about it.

Hey Ken,
I wonder if these were the cards your BIL Barry P. (he was a neighbor, right?) gave me after he tired of them!
Just teasin' ya,
Val

[Stonepony]

Mom didn't throw out BB cards.... but she did toss all my Silver Age Spider-Man comics

[billyb]

Wow, that article could have been about me!!!!!
Almost everything to a tee, right down to my last name (Boyd). the only difference, while I was in the service, my dad told my mother to throw them out. About the same years of cards too, mid 50s to mid 60s. Rubber bands and all. Wow.

[ullmandds]

My mother knew better than to throw any baseball related anything away...I sold my childhood collection 0f late 70's-early 80's complete sets and most star cards from the late 50's-present through Mel Solomon...anyone out there know Mel? He belonged to my temple growing up in northern NJ...and I gave him my collection and asked for $1000...which he dripped to me as he sold cards and when I was made whole...he kept the rest.

I wanted the cash for a 77' camaro as I had previously totalled the 76 granada.

[kmac32]

Saved mine from mom and it grew into vintage collecting.