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mchenrycards
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I have been going through the massive amount of cards I have that are left over from when I ran a card shop a number of years ago and I ran across some of my own cards I had as a kid. I started collecting in 1973 and would always get the newspaper each day and turn to the transactions section of the news paper to see who was traded, released, waiver....whatever. I would then get out my shoe box of cards, pull that player's card out and mark the card up with the next team he was traded to. It was my way of making a "living" set and keeping up with who was playing where. At that time I didn't care about rookie cards or keeping the cards in mint condition as I held them all together with rubber bands anyway. I remember writing on my Mike Schmidt rookie and marking Roberto Clemente's final 1973 Topps card as deceased after he was tragically killed in a plane crash on a humanitarian mission to Nicaragua. It didnt matter who the player was, if he was in the transaction section of the newspaper he got marked up. It has actually been fun seeing these cards and I am glad I still have them as they are an incredible reminder of my child hood.
Does anyone else still have cards from their childhood? Lets see them if you do!!
Does anyone else still have cards from their childhood? Lets see them if you do!!