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To: Rambi who wrote (11191)	6/23/1998 8:31:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

Now Miz penni, you got me feeling old. Fifties?, except for the lack of air conditioning I'd like e'm back. I had some baseball cards but I didn't have as much allowance as most of my friends so I had the cards no one wanted. I clothes pinned them on my bike and sounded like a motorcycle. The kid with the most cards [because he was rich] went bankrupt a few years back. Never played flip them but do I have a Ted Williams story. When I was a lad my parents had a friend with a place in the Florida Keys, on Islamorada. I fished from the dock most days and Ted Williams came by everyday flyfishing for bonefish and barracuda. As I was high on the dock I would be his spotter for that section. Geez, Radio... I stayed home sick to hear Don Larson pitch the only perfect World Series Game.

To: Rambi who wrote (11191)	6/23/1998 8:47:00 PM
From: username	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I did the comic book thing. I had a closet full by the time I got out of high school, Fantastic Four complete, Spiderman complete, Incredible Hulk, etc. And all the "monster" comics that predated the super-heros, plus every Mad Magazine from #1. I bought 2 of each, one to read, and one to save without opening it. My mom tossed them when I went to college. Yeah.

To: Rambi who wrote (11191)	6/24/1998 9:31:00 AM
From: DScottD	Respond to of 71178

I was a '60s kid, but we still flipped baseball cards then. The way we played, you'd flip your card on the ground. If someone flipped their card so it landed on your card, they'd get to keep both cards. My best flipping card was a 1969 Adolfo Phillips. The beauty of that was he wasn't really worth keeping, but I snagged a Willie Mays and a Roberto Clemente with Adolfo. Of course, I lost a Hank Aaron and, in a dreadful turn of events, my buddy eventually got my beloved Adolfo with his Yaz card. I had a great collection with a bunch of late '50s cards that my uncle had. Then, my collection was tragically burned in 1970 when I left my box of cards on the back porch on the day we burned trash. My dad thought the box had trash in it and he threw it in the burn barrel. When he realized his mistake, it was too late to save them. They wouldn't have been worth much these days because I played with them (imagine that), but they were my treasured possessions and I still miss them. Of course, if I hadn't left the box on the back porch and kept it in my room, none of this would have happened. For three years, every cent of my allowance went to the purchase of baseball cards.