The Fresno Bee has a remarkable story about a woman who discovered she had a 139-year-old baseball card featuring the Cincinnati Red Stockings. The card is believed to be among the first ever produced; she tried to sell it on eBay for $10 before realizing what she had; estimates say it could be worth six figures. Crazy stuff. It reminded us of the days, oh, 20-25 years ago when our uncles turned us loose on all the old cards sitting in my grandparents’ basement. The rule was simple: anytime there were “doubles” (two or more of the same card), we got to keep one of them. That rule produced what was, for many years, our most prized possession: a Mike Schmidt rookie card. We’d like to say it was because of Schmidt’s tough stance against hard narcotics. Really, though, it was the fact that it was worth, for a while, several hundreds of dollars. Alas, all our cards were lost in the North Dakota flood of 1997. All we have to show now are memories and a question: were you a collector, and if so what was your prized sports card growing up?

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