(There is nothing like the feeling of knowing that you will be acquiring old cards by the end of the week. So, here's to optimism and town-wide garage sales. I'll be sure to show the goodies after I get them. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 67th in a series): I'm not ready to call this the best card of all-time. I don't think there can be a best card of all-time, even if it's just one person's opinion. But I do know that, out of all of the cards that I have seen in my lifetime, this card has never ceased to be amazing longer than any other card that I've seen. It is the "Dark Side of the Moon" of baseball cards as far as I am concerned, continuing to chart this very day even though it is more than 30 years old. I've mentioned a couple of times that when I was first collecting cards in the mid 1970s, I considered this the most awesome card ever, even though we didn't use the word "awesome" then. I couldn't wai...
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