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Cardboard Crack: A Love Story

Cardboard Crack: A Love Story

The Isotopes annual Baseball Card Team Set giveaway sends me into nostalgic nirvana, but will it inspire me into collecting again?

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Cardboard Crack: A Love Story
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My rankings of the top three presents I ever received as kid are as follows.

  1. Christmas 1984 — A stereo for my own bedroom. It had a radio, a record player, and TWO cassette tape slots, meaning I record tape-to-tape.

  2. Christmas 1985 – The famed 49ers gold satin Starter jacket. This jacket was the ultimate status symbol in the 1980s Bay Area.

  3. Easter 1979 – An…

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