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really bad baseball cards really bad baseball cards goofy looking baseball cards unibrows odd names weird poses bad hair don mossi wally moon and more friday january 23 2015 baseball cards a love story i fell in love with baseball cards at the scituate ma town dump a little background when i was a boy my family traveled to scituate a couple of years running for summer vacation at that time scituate didn t have trash pickup you had to take your trash to the town dump yourself now that dump was a fascinating place for a 10 year old there were trails all over the place winding around sandy hummocks and around each turn there seemed to be something incredible an old refrigerator an antique chest a broken down engine i never wanted to leave what does this have to do with baseball cards well on one visit to the dump i found that someone had gotten rid of a small collection of cards they were brand new and in perfect condition it was like finding buried treasure i was hooked a card from the dump the following spring my family moved again i was a corporate brat so this was something i was used to still i was in junior high school so the move was a little harder than it had been before interestingly one of the things that helped break the ice was a shared interest in cards with some of the neighborhood nerds i remember in particular lusting after stuart karp s collection in fact stuart s collection really got me in high gear somehow i managed to collect all but a handful of the 1971 series merely by buying individual packs that s a lot of duplicates one of stuart s cards that was also a lot of bubble gum yup that was back when packs had gum in them so not only did i have almost the complete collection but i also had a mouthful of cavities i ll never forget how my dentist always made sure i was buying those cards and keeping him in business you were such a wag dr leeson i had about 25 of these in addition to buying new packs and getting a mouth full of silver i also started looking around for older cards now this was before the great card boom so there really weren t any shops around and there certainly weren t any websites what i mostly did was hang out at flea markets i used to get early 50s hall of famers in excellent condition for a buck or two man those were the days i knew back then he d make it to the hall baseball cards lost their appeal however when i hit puberty and discovered sex drugs and rock n roll yup i sold them all and needless to say i did that right before the card market really took off i got a couple of hundred for them even back then they d literally be worth tens of thousands today i pretty much completely lost interest in cards until as a middle aged dad my youngest son started playing baseball one of his coaches liked to hand out cards after practices and games as little rewards now these weren t ordinary cards the guy s father in law happened to have owned a card wholesale business before he retired my kid actually got a 61 koufax i kid you not dad was hooked again said koufax so my sons and i found a local shop and started patronizing it regularly i concentrated mostly on reliving my youth buying minor stars or beat up majors it all stayed in that low gear until i found the following book at a library sale this baby shows the front of every baseball card topps ever made up to 1990 let me repeat that it shows the front of every baseball card topps ever made you can t find that on the internet the book weighs ten pounds and is two inches thick it costs 160 in mint condition i got my mint condition copy for 15 spending hours leafing through it i found i was particularly drawn to some cards that i really hadn t been drawn to before it just seemed like there were so many guys with eyes closed goofy grins really bad hair unibrows unbelievable names and lots more i d always been attracted to unintentional humor and this was a very rich trove indeed but why the blog other than becoming rich and famous and being asked to write books and appear on talk shows you know i m not sure i just thought it would be fun so where to begin sorry but i m limiting this only to the years i actually collected start me at the beginning the 50s i like the 60s let s try the 1970s for 100 alex author has this card author had this card posted by cliff at 1 52 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2015 4 january 4 baseball cards a love story behind blue eyes the incredible floating coach heads a 70s miscellany real action shots 2014 51 december 4 november 5 october 4 september 5 august 4 july 4 june 4 may 4 april 4 march 5 february 4 january 4 2013 48 december 5 november 3 october 4 september 4 august 3 july 4 june 4 may 4 april 5 march 4 february 4 january 4 2012 50 december 5 november 4 october 5 september 3 august 4 july 5 june 3 may 4 april 4 march 4 february 5 january 4 2011 14 december 5 november 4 october 5 about 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