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Kevin CummingsWhen my son was born back in 1983 we did his birth announcement to look like a baseball card (using the company of former major leaguer Jim Bouton). To make it more realistic, we bought wax packs of 1983 Topps, carefully inserted my son's "card", resealed the packs and gave them out. I'm sure a few of my friends got some very nice rookie cards (like Wade Boggs) thanks to me!
Buying the packs and opening them rekindled the fire for collecting I had as a kid and so I decided to put together a Hall of Famer set for him, too. He never was much of a baseball fan, so it wasn't long before I was collecting for just me!