Welcome Back
Here we go! I am a longtime sports writer who got out a couple years ago to teach. I love the switch but miss writing. So ... why not use the stuff laying in my basement as inspiration? This summer will be a deep excursion into the dark depths of my south central Wisconsin basement. While cleaning out said basement last summer, I unearthed thousands of cardboard treasures. Baseball cards! Football cards! Basketball cards! Hockey cards! Batman cards? Desert Storm cards? To say I was addicted to card collecting in my youth would be an understatement. The mid-1980s saw a boom in sports cards, and I was right in the midst of it. I started bugging my mom to buy those wax packs in 1986, and I'll always remember Topps' black-top cards of that year. I'm not sure why, but Milwaukee pitcher Jaime Cocanower was a card that always stood out. It was 1987 that saw my love for card collecting explode. We all know 1987. That wood-grain look of the Topps set - perhaps the grea