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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Out here in flyover country there was no such thing as card shows and I didn't own a price guide so I really knew nothing about tobacco and early gum cards, but there was a monthly flea market that my folks would take me to and one guy who had a big book filled with Goudey and T-206 cards...I remember them being about $5 each no matter what it was, but at that time I didn't really know who the oldtime players were...this was the early 1980s. I wasn't about to spend $5 on one card when I could get 20 packs of Topps cards for the same amount of money.