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Posted By: hrbaker

When I was 8 years old I began collecting by buying 1967 Topps in grocery tray packs (6 for .25). I bought them to find all of the Cardinals never acquiring the high number SP Mike Shannon until 1988 to finish the set. A client of my father noticed that I collected because I always had a stack with a rubber band around them when I stopped by his office on the way home from school for some ice cream money. One day the man told me that he had some cards from when he was a kid and if he could find them I could have them. Sometime later my dad came home from work with a cigar box full of 1954 and 55 Topps. I was hooked. I started asking kids at school if they had any cards I could buy or trade GI Joes and comic books for and that is how my collection started. My first card show was in Memphis in 1982. My first pre-war card bought was a 1939 Playball Gehringer bought out of SCD in 1989 from Kevin Savage. My favorite card is a PSA7 E95 Cobb. I have been collecting ever since. It took me appx. 20 years to complete the 54 and 55 Topps sets from the stake given to me. What a great hobby!