Wear the Memories!

For any collector of baseball cards, this post should bring back the memories. I can recall hours and hours of checking the "Beckett Baseball Guide" sitting in my bedroom floor with literally hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of cards all spread out by maker, year and team. Scouring the piles for Griffey Jr's, Ripkens and Chippers. So now instead of getting out the old, dust-laden shoe boxes, I can re-live the good times with > this! < Keep reading to hear about one of the "coolest" and "most unlikely" find in my collection.


So the story goes like this...My dad was hauling off some trash to the local dump. Upon his arrrival he began talking to a guy he knows. As they were talking, another guy in the bulldozer ran over several boxes of baseball and footbal cards. Dad saw them, flagged the guy down and all three men started to sort through them. Seeing as how the guy didn't run OVER the cards, they were still in excellent shape. Dad thought it might be worth something, so brought home a few boxes. After 5 hours on the back porch, I finally came across the find I was looking for, a Ronnie Lott Rookie Card ($20 then). I thought that would have been the best card I would find all day, until seconds later I found the Joe Montana Rookie Card ($45 then). So as they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure. I forgave my dad for bringing home trash as a present and still have both cards to this day.