My best friend John got the whole thing started. I had given away all of my 1970 Topps baseball cards to one of his brothers a couple of years prior, since I was then a "cool" teenager. At 15, I didn't want anything to do with sports cards, that is until Johnny told me they were worth money. Even then, it was pretty secretive. I would peruse some mailing lists from the few dealers in the country back then and order whatever I could afford. I just loved the idea of having old baseball cards of Hall of Fame players that were so old I had never even seen them before, but I still didn't want anyone else to know. Awkward, crazy times those were back in the '70s! You could land a Clemente rookie in high-grade shape for $5.
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