Night Owl Cards

I'm fairly sure I have mentioned this before, but I'll mention it again, and get into the messy details, too. I once obliterated a 1979 Topps Ozzie Smith rookie card. The recent post at Things Done To Cards reminded me of that fateful day when I applied glue and acetate to the back and front of dear ol' Ozzie. Back in my early collecting days, we didn't have a lot of money to spend on cards, so we didn't accumulate very many. Doubles were few and far between. But by 1978 and 1979, I'd earn money for odd jobs and I had enough cash to walk to the corner store or drug store just about every Saturday. Eventually, I collected a whole mess of doubles. By 1980, the first year I made a concerted effort to collect the entire set, my dupes filled a box or two. I didn't know what to do with them. I had a few trading partners, but not a lot. I mean who wants a 1978 Larry Haney card? But I wanted to create a purpose for them besides just sitting in a box. ...