I am a child of 1980s baseball cards.
Baseball cards helped me become obsessed with baseball. I became fascinated with the sport, due in large part to these little rectangular pieces of cardboard with players’ names, faces and statistics plastered all over them.
Each winter, as the days grew warmer and longer, I waited impatiently for Topps to release their newest set. Starting in early February, I’d head to the local drug store every day to see if the new ones were in (this was before there was online promotion and companies like Topps made any kind of launch date public knowledge), and would be crushed each and every day until the brand new packs would appear.