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[Sean1125]

Originally Posted by unamuzd1

A highlight of many Christmases, when I was a kid, was finding that one box under the tree that looked like it would contain clothes, but instead contained plastic pages filled with early- to mid-50s Topps and Bowman cards. My dad's collection was stolen out of the storage unit beneath my grandparents' apartment some time in the 70s, and every year he would buy a few lots of cards from the era he remembered, which he would then split between myself and my little brother for Christmas. And every once in a while, he'd go further back, and put in some Goudeys or t-cards.

The cards I can look at and say, "Dad gave me that," are still some of my favorites.

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[bnorth]

A bunch of great stories guys thank you for sharing.

Here is mine. Back around 1975( I was 6) my much older cousin gave me his stacks of 1960-66 cards before he died at a very young age of a rare brain disorder. I put them in a drawer at my great grandparents house and never touched them for a little over 10 years because I couldn't have cared less for baseball.

Around 86 my little brother started collecting and I told him about my cards and we went and looked at them. I was amazed at how much the Mantle, Mays, and other cards where worth. Well long story short I found a person playing I liked and fell in love with collecting and baseball. From that day on I have been buying Wade Boggs items and whatever else has looked good to me.

I sold and traded most of the cards my cousin left to me except one beat to heck 66 Mantle that when I got it was mint and it is going nowhere.

unamuzd61 congrats on the $250 store credit from Sean!

[Jayworld]

I've posted this elsewhere on the forum over a year ago, but I thought it would be appropriate to re-visit for this particular post:

My mom never threw anything of mine out, and she supported me collecting cards (and helped me with my collection as a kid) by stopping at the neighborhood 7-11 back in the mid-1970s to pick up a few 25 cent packs. She even helped me by adding to my "savings" to purchase my first complete Topps set (without buying from packs) in 1979. I remember perusing Hobby publications, and the best price on a new set was from a "Leon Rock" for $9.99 plus shipping (whereas other dealers were $13 and up generally). When the set took a long time to arrive (over 3 months), I remember my mom always giving the seller the benefit of the doubt.

Years later, my mom was cleaning out some of her old purses, and she found an unopened pack of 1976 Topps baseball cards that she had evidently bought and forgotten to give me. This was in the early 90s. It was fun opening a pack of cards over 15 years old!

She passed away May 4, 2013. I still miss her.

[unamuzd1]

Originally Posted by Sean1125

Congrats, random.org chose you!

Thanks, Sean! This is a great thread. It reminds me why I fell in love with this hobby to begin with, and why I keep coming back to it.

And I know a couple of cards that my dad talked about having in his collection, that I'll be looking for in your store. They obviously won't be "his," but that's okay.

Thanks again!