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

[iowadoc77]

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

[Rich Klein]

Print Publications actually mattered

[baseball tourist]

You would flip cards against the wall with friends and didn't have them entombed in serial numbered slabs.

[irv]

Originally Posted by baseball tourist

You would flip cards against the wall with friends and didn't have them entombed in serial numbered slabs.

Yep, and flipping cards off a raised outdoor section at our school and stepping all over them trying to pick up as many as you could!.

Then, taking the cards you did manage to grab and placing them in your spokes

[begsu1013]

when no one wanted to fornicate w your exit way after trying to pass a fake on ya?

[whiteymet]

....when no one ( was it Herb Ross??) who had yet to "invent" super star cards. And you would trade a Mickey Mantle even up for a Joe Koppe if you needed Koppe and had a Mantle dupe!!

[MacDice]

...packs had gum in them