(Today is "Teddy Bear Day". Sadly, I never had a teddy bear when I was a tyke. Probably explains why I'm so screwed up now. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 231st in a series): This probably doesn't happen as much these days with the number of fans involved in fantasy baseball and internet junkies pouring over stats from the lowest levels of the minors, but there comes a time in a person's life when he discovers a player on a baseball card who he never knew existed. Perhaps you don't remember the exact instant this happened for you, but I remember it for me. It was early in my senior year of high school. Baseball cards were becoming less prominent in my life, but I still collected actively. The baseball card season had ended (back then, there were card "seasons" and the baseball card season stopped around September or October as that year's packs slowly disappeared to make way for football card packs and football card season)...
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