While doing my annual delayed post-Christmas shopping yesterday (you will never find me in a store Dec. 26), I snagged a long-awaited ipod for meself. I don't know what took me so long. I also grabbed a rack pack of random cards at the drug store. It was a toss-up between the jumbo pack of "100 Baseball Cards" that I wrote about previously , and a rack pack of 2010 Topps 206. Hmmmm. Let's see. 12 cards for 5 bucks or 100 cards for 5 bucks. Why are we buying current cards again? I already knew what would be in the pack with the picture of Anonymous Baseball Man. Lots of junk wax. But there'd be a few random gems, too, which makes this pack much more interesting than a pack featuring Placido Polanco's round, bald skull. I waited to open my 100 Baseball Cards in the hazy, buzzy first few hours of 2011. Skipping all of the junkiness, this is what was left: I am hopelessly attracted to any Fleer product issued between 2000-04. 1985 Donruss i...
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