[1963Topps Set]

In 1982, after a decade of avidly collecting baseball cards with a passion, I suddenly stopped. I was warned not to, but I was burned out. Plus I had just graduated High School, getting ready for college and a lot of other changes going on. The big thing was the 1981 baseball strike, this left a real sour taste in me.

In 1984, I actually started watching baseball again with the exciting Dwight Gooden and the Mets. During this time, a co-worker of my father's offered to buy my baseball card collection, me, not realizing what was going on, still refused. A guy on my bowling team bought a Tom Seaver rookie for his son for $90.00. I said "You paid $90.00 for a baseball card!"

In the spring of 1989, from out of no where, I got the baseball card bug again. I don't know why, I had not even looked at my cards since I stopped. I dug out my old cards, went through them and expected to pick up right where I left off in 1982. BOY, was I in for a huge surprise!!