It’s a crisp, sunny afternoon on Belgrade Street in Port Richmond. My friend Scott and I are set up on his front porch. We bought the colored stickers from the dollar store. We wrote on poster board and construction paper and littered every pole nearby – Allegheny Avenue, Clearfield Street, Aramingo Avenue even. The cards mostly came from the collectible shop a few blocks away, but some are from my original collection, the box my brother gave me upon moving out a few years before.
We think we priced everything correctly. We used Beckett as our guide, but intuition dictated a few other choices, such as the Phillies Finest series, a 20-card set produced by Fleer Ultra for 1994.