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TwinGnats
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Last November I went to my mom's new lake house and she had 15 boxes of stuff I packed away in 1997 when I went off to college. I found a bunch of cool stuff like my old GI Joes, transformers and a huge pile of baseball "stuff". In the stuff I found my three Panini baseball sticker books from 1988 - 1989 -1990. It was clear that I lost interest as the years went on (from the age of 10 to 12) since the 1988 book was missing 34 stickers, 1989 was missing about half and 1990 had one or two stickers for each team.
I pulled it out when I made room for a library for my wife in the basement and started looking at it, I remember looking at it all the time. I ended up stapling the binding and taping it together after it fell apart and I have these notations on the ones I was missing (not sure what they mean) and then I have random writing on the back cover where I think I was adding up the book price of my cards ($213.20)
A week ago when I was looking at it I decided that I would see if there was a box of stickers on ebay and there was for $30, it was a little spendy but I really wanted to finish the 1988 book and I figured I could sell the extra Twins I got locally. I put so much time into trying to finish it (I should have just sent my doubles off to Panini for $1 where your could request up to 30 at a time) when I was a kid and I wanted to complete it for the little kid in my that just didn't have enough quarters to get enough packs or enough intelligence to beg my mom for a dollar to send in my doubles.
The box came today and I was able to find every one I needed except for two of the foil pennants in the back: #J (Yankees) and #Q (Reds) these are the ones with the pennent sticker and a round logo sticker on it (strangely the logo sticker didn't go anywhere in the book). If anyone has a stash of these I would love to work out something with you. Even if you have the 88 book and you didn't really have many stickers in it. If you don't really care about it I'd even take ones that are cut out of a book. I would love to finish this and keep it. This was the book where it had a lot of Twins stuff in it because they won the world series.
I won't be buying any stickers for 89 or 90 but if anyone has any I have a ton of doubles (close to a set) for the 1988 book, maybe we can work out a trade but I really would love to see if anyone has those two pennant stickers somewhere in their collection.
Edit: In the back cover of the book it has a spot to put your three favorite players and I put Reggie Jackson, Rickey Henderson and Wade Boggs - my 10 year old self had good taste.
I pulled it out when I made room for a library for my wife in the basement and started looking at it, I remember looking at it all the time. I ended up stapling the binding and taping it together after it fell apart and I have these notations on the ones I was missing (not sure what they mean) and then I have random writing on the back cover where I think I was adding up the book price of my cards ($213.20)
A week ago when I was looking at it I decided that I would see if there was a box of stickers on ebay and there was for $30, it was a little spendy but I really wanted to finish the 1988 book and I figured I could sell the extra Twins I got locally. I put so much time into trying to finish it (I should have just sent my doubles off to Panini for $1 where your could request up to 30 at a time) when I was a kid and I wanted to complete it for the little kid in my that just didn't have enough quarters to get enough packs or enough intelligence to beg my mom for a dollar to send in my doubles.
The box came today and I was able to find every one I needed except for two of the foil pennants in the back: #J (Yankees) and #Q (Reds) these are the ones with the pennent sticker and a round logo sticker on it (strangely the logo sticker didn't go anywhere in the book). If anyone has a stash of these I would love to work out something with you. Even if you have the 88 book and you didn't really have many stickers in it. If you don't really care about it I'd even take ones that are cut out of a book. I would love to finish this and keep it. This was the book where it had a lot of Twins stuff in it because they won the world series.
I won't be buying any stickers for 89 or 90 but if anyone has any I have a ton of doubles (close to a set) for the 1988 book, maybe we can work out a trade but I really would love to see if anyone has those two pennant stickers somewhere in their collection.
Edit: In the back cover of the book it has a spot to put your three favorite players and I put Reggie Jackson, Rickey Henderson and Wade Boggs - my 10 year old self had good taste.
