It's difficult for me to imagine what life was like for a kid in the 1950s. Even though the '50s is one of the most romanticized decades in American history, there is still much of it that escapes me. I don't know what it's like, for example, to live in a world without sugar packets or air bubble packaging or astroturf. All of it was invented after 1956 but before I was born. And I don't know what it's like to put a penny on the counter and receive exactly one wrapped baseball card in return -- which was something you could do in 1956. But thanks to the cards that came in those packs in 1956, I've often wondered what it was like to be a boy that year. What was it like to go to the corner grocery store or drug store, surrender a single coin, and receive a piece of art on cardboard in return? I know what it's like to be a 9-year-old in the '70s. The plaid pants, the flowered wallpaper, the yellow smiley faces everywhere. I know what it'...
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