Journeyman and I were talking about 7-11 Slurpees and baseball cards yesterday and I thought it would be cool to hear where everyones childhood baseball card collection ended up.
I'll let Jman tell his story again...as for me I started collecting them at age 9 and had them neatly filed away under teams separated by years in a tackle box my Grandfather left me. Most were bought at the 7-11 in Port St. Lucie, Florida some were trades with friends. I had Reggie Jackson's rookie card and Steve Carlton....and so many more.
In 1984 I went to Tallahassee to see the hated Gators play FSU and left my girlfriend at home in Atlanta. I lived in an apartment at the time and had the all purpose storage room on the balcony that I constantly bitched about being a cluster. So, while I was away yelling Gators Suck my girlfriend was cleaning out the storage room along with my tackle box full of my baseball cards.
Where are they now? I don't know...she left them at the Goodwill and someone got very lucky. They were history when I went to look for them; I got the tackle box back BTW.
The girlfriend is missing, too.
I'll let Jman tell his story again...as for me I started collecting them at age 9 and had them neatly filed away under teams separated by years in a tackle box my Grandfather left me. Most were bought at the 7-11 in Port St. Lucie, Florida some were trades with friends. I had Reggie Jackson's rookie card and Steve Carlton....and so many more.
In 1984 I went to Tallahassee to see the hated Gators play FSU and left my girlfriend at home in Atlanta. I lived in an apartment at the time and had the all purpose storage room on the balcony that I constantly bitched about being a cluster. So, while I was away yelling Gators Suck my girlfriend was cleaning out the storage room along with my tackle box full of my baseball cards.
Where are they now? I don't know...she left them at the Goodwill and someone got very lucky. They were history when I went to look for them; I got the tackle box back BTW.
The girlfriend is missing, too.
