There is an article about baseball cards up on MSN that brings a lot of nostalgia to me. Recently I posted my experinces at the old Briggs Stadium as a child. Ted Williams being part of the experience. My friend from school who I went to the Detroit games with was a very fortunate kid for those times. Charlie got $1 per day lunch money when you could cross the street from school and get a hot dog and coke for 20 cents. Now when spring came in 1952 Charlie chose to forego lunch and after school we walked down to a little convenience store on the way home and Charlie bought 20 packs of Topps cards. EVERY day for 3 (?) months. Then we sat on the curb and sorted them. Charlie picked the Tigers cards and gave the rest to me. I put mine in the bag they came in and merrily went on home, placed my cards in a shoe box, put the shoe box in the attic and went to the playground. When the summer came I had 2 plus shoe boxes full of 1952 Topps baseball cards. I dont recall ever removing them from the attic but we moved in 1956 and I forgot about them until many years later I saw where a Mickey Mantle card sold for $3,000,000.00. Im sure someone along the line threw them away but I often wonder how many Mantle cards I may have held in ownership at the same time.
