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Originally Posted by larietrope
Why we as children paid nickels for cardboard baseball players. Then roughly handled them, put rubber bands around them, put them in bicycle spokes, flipped them, traded them, and treated them harshly.
Now as mature adults, we readily pay hundreds, yea thousands of dollars to recollect the cards of our youth?
I admit my guilt, do you admit yours ?
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We loved them. And what you're describing is exactly what kids should have done with them. I wouldn't say we handled them "harshly", but I know what you mean. I would say instead, we handled them in an unselfconscious and free way. And we treasured them. As someone who left the hobby for 40 years and came back to it recently, those times becomes more and more precious, and those cards are a link to those times...