It all started when I was a kid I was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in New Jersey. My favorite sports teams are the Mets, NY Giants, Red Sox, Nationals, and Capitals. I figure that if your favorite team is a NL team then you should have an AL team to root for and vice verse. The Mid Atlantic is actually a pretty good place to be a baseball fan as it is home to 2 MLB teams and quite a few minor league and college teams. As a kid growing up in New Jersey I was always attracted to bubble gum cards. I never really liked the bubble gum but the cards were small pices of pop art wrapped in wax paper. I think the first cards I may have bought were 1971 baseball cards. I have a vague recolection of paying a dime to get a pack of 10 cards. Even though I did not care much for the gum I remember just how great it smelled. It was the 1975 season that my brother Joe and I decided to pool our meager resources to attempt to collect the entire 660 card set. I can remember that baseball card collecting was at its pinnicle that year on our cul de sac in the Garden State. There was fierce competition from the other kids in the neighborhood as to who will be first to complete the set. If memory serves me right we never did collect all of the cards that year and those that we did were sold several years later at a baseball card auction several years later. After the 1975 season my brother's interest in bubble gum cards came to a conclusion and while I still collected sports and non sports cards I was never able to match that magical summer of '75 when we nearly had all the cards. I remember we would "flip" the cards which was more of a game of matching the colors in the card's lettering as opposed to physically flipping them. Variations of the rules were made possible if you "called it". As Jerry Seinfeld once said nearly anything is possible as long as you "called it". Links 7 11 Slurpee Coins Team Set Checklists