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The Bucket List

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I am sure many collectors out there have their Bucket List of cards they would like to collect. While I have never taken the time to do so, I do believe I just gathered two cards from said list in the last month. Growing up in the junk wax era, there were many cards we thought would hold a lot of value, but sadly most of them did not. That didn't stop me from coveting two of said junk wax treasures as a child - and now into middle age. If you're 41 like me (or at least near that age), you remember vividly how the Bash Brothers, well, bashed baseballs. I certainly did, and I grew up a huge Jose Canseco fan - and, to a lesser extent, a Mark McGwire fan. Having not started collecting until 1987, I was never lucky enough to pull one of their respective rookie cards from a wax pack. McGwire's 1985 USA Baseball card was issued a year before I even bought my first pack. Canseco's Donruss and Fleer rookies were something I knew nothing about having only collected Topps in 198