How Ed Brinkman’s 1973 Topps card haunted my childhood
Mar 19, 2022
2 minutes
BY JEFF OWENS
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There’s nothing quite like opening a pack of trading cards and pulling your favorite player or the hot rookie whose card keeps going up in value.
There’s also nothing comparable to the letdown of pulling the same, marginal player and the same worthless card over and over and over again.
As a kid, there was nothing more deflating than buying a
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