Childhood baseball card memories.

[iwantitiwinit]

1967, I was 6 years old, my Dad would buy me one pack of Topps baseball cards every week after Sunday mass from Sal's stationary store in Stamford, CT. I loved (and still love) the big head shots, vibrant colors and the green backs of the 67's. Only way he could get me to mass without me throwing a tantrum was to promise me a pack. My dad is the best.

[nat]

Elementary school in the mid 80s I got my cards at a Chinese grocery store three or four blocks from my house. There weren't yet any card shops in town, so anything more than a couple years old was hard to find. Anyway, I had a friend who was a few years older than me and had some of these coveted "old" cards, many of which he traded to me in absurdly one-sided trades. He was trading me Bench and Yastrzemski for, like, 1986 Mark Langston cards.

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It wasn't until years later that I found out he was trading me his brother's cards.

[conor912]

Thousands and thousands of ‘87 Topps with rubber bands around them. To this day the smell of a late 80’s wax pack is like a drug for me.....instantly and fleetingly I am 8 years old again.

[oldjudge]

Originally Posted by iwantitiwinit

1967, I was 6 years old, my Dad would buy me one pack of Topps baseball cards every week after Sunday mass from Sal's stationary store in Stamford, CT. I loved (and still love) the big head shots, vibrant colors and the green backs of the 67's. Only way he could get me to mass without me throwing a tantrum was to promise me a pack. My dad is the best.

I lived in Darien for a long time, where was Sal’s? Is that the place in Bulls Head?

[iwantitiwinit]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

I lived in Darien for a long time, where was Sal’s? Is that the place in Bulls Head?

It was in the Cove section of Stamford on Cove Rd just up the street from Terry Connors Rink (which didn't exist at the time) next to KT Murphy Elementary School. We moved to Greenwich in 1972 and don't know what ever happened to Sal's Stationary.