This year marks the 10th anniversary of my return to collecting modern cards. I don't really remember when I picked up my first rack pack of 2006 Topps, but my guess is it was around this time, perhaps a little earlier or later. It's interesting to look back at what caused me to jump back into collecting current sets. After all, I had gone more than 10 years with only occasional pack pickups and they weren't enough to get me hooked then, so what was so great about 2006? There were probably three factors involved: 1) I had returned to card collecting in general a couple years earlier in my bid to complete my first set from childhood, 1975 Topps, and I had completed it. 2) I had spotted Topps' All-Time Fan Favorites packs at Walmart in 2004 and 2005 and loved them. 3) The 2006 rack packs that I saw advertised "3 extra vintage Topps cards inside!" Old cards? From back when I collected? That was the clincher. Somewhere along the way of opening packs t...
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