One last thing, my dad gave me a box

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My friends and I started collecting cards in 1985–packs were $0.30. So, we’d take a dollar, hop on our bikes and buy three packs of Topps (you could only get Fleer or Donruss on the other side of town) and a few nickel suckers. The next spring we we took that same regular order to the counter but packs were now $0.35. The old guy saw how crushed we were to put the suckers back that he would toss one of his own nickels in the register so we could still have our three packs. He got tough on us the next year when they went up to $0.40. I quite collecting when packs went over a dollar, about 1992.

One last thing, my dad gave me a box of 1986 Topps a few years ago and I couldn’t help trying some of that gum. The hesitant first chew of 22 year-old gum brought back a flood of memories, followed by the waxy stick disintegrating into a sickening powder. Any one else dumb enough to eat decades-old gum?

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I got into the card collecting habit when I was about 9 (1988 or so). I would buy cards at the local farmers market where the candy shop sold them and any other place I could find them. I collected had about a thousand cards when one day, my dad said “hey I think I have a cigar box full of old cards.” he gave me the box and I almost lost my mind. He had Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Harmon Killebrew’s rookie card. It was amazing. I had a Beckett card pricing book and found out that these cards were worth a lot of money. I immediately told my dad who said “They’re only worth that if you can find someone to buy them.” He also pointed out that he and my aunt had drawn letters and numbers on them to play games with them.

My favorite cards are two or three signed Richie Ashburn cards. In late 1996 or early 1997, my dad an I went to a Phillies hot stove banquet where Richie Ashburn was speaking. I brought some of my dad’s old cards from the 60s. Upon seeing them, Mr. Ashburn exclaimed “well these are pretty old, huh? I look a lot better there then I do now.” He passed away about a year after that. I don’t think I’ll ever part with them.


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My ducky cards are two or figure subscribed Richie Ashburn game. In previous 1996 or premature 1997, my dad an I went to a Phillies hot range banquet where Richie Ashburn was tongued.

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