In 1982 I found myself working in a shoe shop "buffing" and "antiquing" shoes. It was piecework and I developed a system that made me very fast to the point where my foreman took my two co-workers and moved them to other positions after watching me consistently buff out half a dozen racks to their one. I was making pretty good money at the time and with no major financial commitments, it went into cards. As I mentioned back in post #31 on this thread one of my co-workers who also worked in the shoe shop and was a childhood friend who also collected gave me a price guide and that was the year I discovered Twin City Coin in the Airport Mall and started buying up vintage cards of all the players I had ever heard of. 1982 was the year Cal Ripken Jr. appeared in the major sets so this nine card post is heavy with my rookie cards of Cal.
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1982 Anchorage Glacier Pilots McGwire #1 Mark McGwire (The back of this early McGwire card lists him as both a first baseman and a pitcher.)
1982 Donruss #405 Cal Ripken RC
1982 Fleer #176 Cal Ripken RC
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1982 O-Pee-Chee #95 Ozzie Smith/Traded to Cardinals Feb. 11/82 (When a player was traded, OPC would let you know right on the front of the card.)
1982 Perma-Graphic All-Stars #16 Pete Rose
1982 Perma-Graphic All-Stars #17 Mike Schmidt
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1982 Topps #21 Bob Bonner RC/Cal Ripken RC/Jeff Schneider RC (Bonner was actually called up to play shortstop for the O's over Ripken. He went on to a long career . . . as a Baptist missionary in Zambia. Schneider lasted all of 24 innings before going back to "life as a normal person". I wonder if he brags to his buddies at the bowling alley that his Topps rookie card is more valuable than Derek Jeter's.)
1982 Topps Traded #98T Cal Ripken
1982 Topps Traded #109T Ozzie Smith
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1982 Anchorage Glacier Pilots McGwire #1 Mark McGwire (The back of this early McGwire card lists him as both a first baseman and a pitcher.)
1982 Donruss #405 Cal Ripken RC
1982 Fleer #176 Cal Ripken RC
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1982 O-Pee-Chee #95 Ozzie Smith/Traded to Cardinals Feb. 11/82 (When a player was traded, OPC would let you know right on the front of the card.)
1982 Perma-Graphic All-Stars #16 Pete Rose
1982 Perma-Graphic All-Stars #17 Mike Schmidt
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1982 Topps #21 Bob Bonner RC/Cal Ripken RC/Jeff Schneider RC (Bonner was actually called up to play shortstop for the O's over Ripken. He went on to a long career . . . as a Baptist missionary in Zambia. Schneider lasted all of 24 innings before going back to "life as a normal person". I wonder if he brags to his buddies at the bowling alley that his Topps rookie card is more valuable than Derek Jeter's.)
1982 Topps Traded #98T Cal Ripken
1982 Topps Traded #109T Ozzie Smith
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