It would have been a mid-summer morning. Maybe July or August. I'd have been staying with my grandmother, and we'd go in the morning to "Sam the Barber" on Haddon Ave. in Collingswood, NJ to get a haircut. I'd flip through his salt water fishing magazines, get a buzz cut, and then walk across the street after daydreaming about reeling in some sail fish and what that'd be like.
I was big into collecting baseball cards during those years. I had (still have) a baseball signed by all the 1977's Phillies players, because they signed it for my dying 15yr old uncle. I had a bunch of 70s and early 80s cards that were given to me along with the baseball from my grandmother. I thought I had the best collection ever going, and I was on the hunt for a gem on those summer mornings in the card shop across the street from the barber. I'd pick out a couple. Grandmom would tell me to get some more and get the total closer to $10. "Wow - check out this Rod Carew card for $2!!!"
I've got Fleer, Tops, Upper Deck, Donruss, Score, Classic, Leaf, Bowman, ... you name it, I've got it ... however, I don't have many cards (even from the 70's) that are worth shit. Cards from the late 80s and early 90s aren't shit, except for a few. I got a complete and new 1990 Upper Deck set (still wrapped in the original shrink wrap plastic to this day) for Christmas that I think my grandmother probably paid $99 for, at that time. I thought it was the best gift I ever got.
Now, I am moving yet again. Something like my 5th cross country move. Back to California this time. (I'm beginning to lose count.) In the process of packing up, I again have come across my shrink wrapped set, the multiple 3 ring binders of cards, the boxes full of random cards that are mint, the boxes of football cards that I also started to collect, and the few basketball cards. The pangs of dissolving the emotional bond to most -- if not all -- of the cards along with wondering what I should really do with them, what are they worth, or what would they be worth 100 years from now for a great-great nephew is again a question. I could probably throw the whole bunch into the recycling and be none the worse other than the wondering ... "was there..." "did I have..." Yet, I'm still holding on.
Guh. *sigh*
Have you gotten rid of them?
Gnothi Seauton.
I was big into collecting baseball cards during those years. I had (still have) a baseball signed by all the 1977's Phillies players, because they signed it for my dying 15yr old uncle. I had a bunch of 70s and early 80s cards that were given to me along with the baseball from my grandmother. I thought I had the best collection ever going, and I was on the hunt for a gem on those summer mornings in the card shop across the street from the barber. I'd pick out a couple. Grandmom would tell me to get some more and get the total closer to $10. "Wow - check out this Rod Carew card for $2!!!"
I've got Fleer, Tops, Upper Deck, Donruss, Score, Classic, Leaf, Bowman, ... you name it, I've got it ... however, I don't have many cards (even from the 70's) that are worth shit. Cards from the late 80s and early 90s aren't shit, except for a few. I got a complete and new 1990 Upper Deck set (still wrapped in the original shrink wrap plastic to this day) for Christmas that I think my grandmother probably paid $99 for, at that time. I thought it was the best gift I ever got.
Now, I am moving yet again. Something like my 5th cross country move. Back to California this time. (I'm beginning to lose count.) In the process of packing up, I again have come across my shrink wrapped set, the multiple 3 ring binders of cards, the boxes full of random cards that are mint, the boxes of football cards that I also started to collect, and the few basketball cards. The pangs of dissolving the emotional bond to most -- if not all -- of the cards along with wondering what I should really do with them, what are they worth, or what would they be worth 100 years from now for a great-great nephew is again a question. I could probably throw the whole bunch into the recycling and be none the worse other than the wondering ... "was there..." "did I have..." Yet, I'm still holding on.
Guh. *sigh*
Have you gotten rid of them?
Gnothi Seauton.
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