My mom said

I visited my parents and family last weekend and while we were having lunch and talking about baseball cards and other things, my mom said, "There are a bunch of baseball cards in that drawer." My dad and I were like, "What are you talking about?" 

So, she walked over to the said drawer in the said chest of drawers and pulled out, sure enough, a wad of baseball cards. 

The majority were insert cards for Topps clothing and merchandise from maybe 1989 and certainly 1990 and 1991 packs. Some of these depict 1988 cards, some featured Mark McGwire, and some showed Jose Canseco. The rest showcase really, truly, terribly bad fashion choices. 

There was a Toys 'R Us Rookies boxed set from 1990 and the Fleer Baseball MVPs from 1990, too. Ahhhhh, nostalgic love for those delightful, glorious 44 card boxed sets! There are a smattering of random baseball cards (Schmidt, Ripken Jr., Mattingly, Sam Horn, Mitch Webster, three French's Mustard cards, the Kevins Elster, Seitzer, and Mitchell, Luis Tiant, some weird 1995 Stouffers Don Drysdale pull tab thing still in the wrapper, &c.), along with one football card (Richard Dent), a hockey card with three players (one of whom is Mike Bossy, this one), some track and field and other sports stuff, and a random Tyrannosaurus Rex card. As you do. Also, eight cards from the 1992 Babe Ruth set, and then some 1981 Cramer Baseball Legends Series 2, a complete 1983 Donruss Hall of Fame Heroes set, and a complete oversized 1984 Donruss Baseball Champions. 

Basically, though, these are cards that might have been alright for my mom to throw away! Though, fortunately, she never performed that action... My dad kept some of them, I am planning on keeping just the two Nolan Ryan cards, and the rest are on TCDB for trading (you can find all the cards available by navigating from this page) and may appear for free on the ngtcollectibles Sunday thread in a few weeks.

This is, effectively, a time capsule. But instead of being a random newspaper, a proclamation from the Mayor, and a tin of biscuits or a bottle of soda or something, it is a batch of cards that were in that drawer for 34 or so years when 16 year old me (or my brother, or my slightly older then us, naturally, mother or father) put in there. It is kind of funny, in a way, that they have been in there for such a long time and that they all aged remarkably better than we all have. But in some other strange way it is kind of sad, too. But at least now it means there is more space for stuff in the drawer, which sadly we will not find 34 years from now.

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