When I was doing my grocery shopping in Wal-Mart the other day, I happened to walk by the sports cards section and I couldn't help myself. I saw all of those packs hanging up and those boxes sitting on the shelves and I just had to buy a few packs. I picked out a couple of 2011 Topps Baseball packs and tossed them into my shopping cart.
I collected when I was a growing up and I probably stopped when I was about 17 or 18 so my collection ended in 1983. Topps was the only thing I collected because it was about the only brand out there (Donruss and Fleer appeared right about the time I stopped collecting).
I started collecting again right about the time me and my wife got together in the late 1980's (although I couldn't begin to tell you why that triggered the collecting bug again) and it died off again in the late 1990's although I would buy the occasional pack once in a while as a pick me up.
The other day I needed a pick me up and saw those cards and I couldn't wait until I got home to open them up. It brought back a ton of good memories from my younger years and I really don't know if I got anything good out of the two packs or not. I got a Neil Walker (I got to see him play in the minor leagues with low Class A Hickory in 2005) and a Stephen Strasburg. They had the Topps All-Star Rookie symbols on the front of the card so they must be halfway decent.
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