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Stingray
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It's 6:00 a.m. driving into work on a nice sunny morning on July 1, 2005. Flip the radio station to the 70s station on the XM satellite radio. Hear some songs, Best of My Love - The Eagles, Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks, the mind now begins to wonder. Wait, I am in the back seat of my mom's 1974 Pontiac Ventura heading up to the local Kresege. I have money in hand anticipating the purchase of some baseball cards. Get to the store, stupid Topps, raised the price from 10 cents to 25 cents, buy 4 packs instead of ten. Get home time to rip them open on the bed. Have to seperate the cards out by teams, these cards are really different this year, smaller than last years cards and much more color to them, what has Topps done? Have to stack up my Tigers and take any doubles with me to school so I can trade at recess time. Put any extras into my Topp Locker card storage unit. It is recess time, stupid transistor radio, barely getting the Tigers game on WJR 76. Ernie Harwell's voice is hardley audible. Start to do some trading looking for that Kaline. Wait a minute, after checking and checking we realize there is only a highlight card for him! OOOOOOOps my hand has slipped, what is that I hear, Avril Lavigne on the radio? MMMM, 30 year come and gone like a warm summer breeze.
Random musings from,
Stingray
Random musings from,
Stingray
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Shannon
My Steve Carlton Basic Registry Set
1983's for me... I wish they were a dime. I tihnk the wax packs were $.29 and the cellos were $.49. I used to ride my bike to the local pharmacy and get a few packs and either one of the long jolly ranchers or a green river from the soda fountain. For some reason Jody Davis was my favorite player but I was excited to get any Cubs player. I also remeber getting the sticker yearbook and buying those packs in an attempt to fill my book. I remeber on the inside cover there was the complete standings from the year before and I would study that all the time. Those days were so much less complicated. I wish I could be 8 again. I also wish I could be 18 again but that is for way different reasons...
My Auctions
2nd pack: 1982 Donruss from an ice cream man in San Francisco. Contained a coveted Nolan Ryan that I have to this day, with all the creases and wear of idolship over the past 23 years.
Last pack I ever purchased: 1988 Topps, in 1988. Nobody of significance.
August 1970. Sneak across Montana Ave, a street that was too busy for me to be allowed to cross. A dime burning a hole in my pocket. Decisions, decisions. 2 packs of Odd Rods, or 1 pack of baseball cards. Flip the coin, heads for baseball. Hope the coin doesn't roll under the rack. Baseball, this time. Step outside the store, rip the pack. Stuff the gum in my mouth, flip thru the cards- got 'em , got 'em, need 'em, got 'em , need 'em, HEY! JIM PALMER!, got 'em (this guy Williams has no neck at all!), Santo All star, cool!, need 'em. Now the scratchoff, while walking home. Stash the cards since mom knows we'd have to cross Montana, sneak the doubles off to trade.
Summer never seemed to end back then.
Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's
<< <i>Put any extras into my Topp Locker card storage unit. >>
I had one of those too! I remember ordering it from the label on the back of a pack of cards...they sold similar ones in the stores, but no - I had to have the "real" Topps one! Those were good days...
i believe "Copper bones"
was the last one i needed and i made the trade like a criminal in the boys bathroom so the teachers couldnt see the trade
i remember begging my parents to take me to the stationary store so i can dump some quarters on wacky packages....then i remember going to school with all my trade bait so i could complete the set.
i believe "Copper bones"
was the last one i needed and i made the trade like a criminal in the boys bathroom so the teachers couldnt see the trade
I don't know anyone who remembers buying 16th series wacky packs. They were barely distributed. My last series was 7.
So it isn't just me seeing some of these old threads on the first page of this board??
Bunt has been busy bumping threads and then deleting his comments, exploiting a flaw in the thread sequencing software.
i remember begging my parents to take me to the stationary store so i can dump some quarters on wacky packages....then i remember going to school with all my trade bait so i could complete the set.
i believe "Copper bones"
was the last one i needed and i made the trade like a criminal in the boys bathroom so the teachers couldnt see the trade
I don't know anyone who remembers buying 16th series wacky packs. They were barely distributed. My last series was 7.
Grew up close to the factory and I guess it made it easier.