does anybody really connect with what they collect??

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Posted By: Jeff O

Like JC, my first year collecting cards was in 1977. I grew up in Philadelphia, and Greg Luzinski was my all-time favorite player. I remember my dad walking a friend and I to 7-11 (we were 6 years old) to buy packs of cards, which we took home and opened on the steps of the front porch while dad sat outside with a neighbor... and I still remember opening one of those packs and pulling a 77 Topps Luzinski and being so exicited that I ran over to show it to him.

The story continues... I wrote a number "1" on the back of that card... it was my favorite, and therefore #1. Fast forward to the late 1980s... I'm in college, and my dad now owns a baseball card shop where I work after school and on weekends. One slow afternoon I decided I needed to look for Luzinski cards in our commons boxes for kicks... what do I find in our box of 77 Topps commons? A Luzinski card with two creases, some rough corners, and a number "1" on the back... I still have that card today in a screw down holder on my dresser.

Jeff