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ccouch (Chad)
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Thirty years ago today, Christmas 1983, in my grandparents' coal-stove heated living room in a podunk little coal-mining town in Eastern Kentucky, I received a 1983 Topps Factory Set. It was one of those sets from either the JCPenney or Sears catalog and I had lusted after it for months. Back in that summer, I'd been able to buy three rack packs and had virtually worn those 150 or so cards out. To have the whole set seemed like the ultimate luxury.
That factory set (which came in a standard 800-count white box FWIW) provided me literally hundreds of hours of entertainment over the next few years. If you name any player from that set, I can tell you what the front of the card looks like.
To this day, I still have that exact set. The checklists are marked and there's not a sharp corner in the entire set. But it means as much to me as any other tangible possession from my childhood. Every time I look through it, it is as if I'm transported back to being that wide-eyed 10-year old boy...
Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope yours has been as blessed as mine.
That factory set (which came in a standard 800-count white box FWIW) provided me literally hundreds of hours of entertainment over the next few years. If you name any player from that set, I can tell you what the front of the card looks like.
To this day, I still have that exact set. The checklists are marked and there's not a sharp corner in the entire set. But it means as much to me as any other tangible possession from my childhood. Every time I look through it, it is as if I'm transported back to being that wide-eyed 10-year old boy...
Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope yours has been as blessed as mine.