Old Baseball Card Nightmare !

When I was a teen, I stored my old baseball cards in plastic sheets into which you had to staple your cards (stapling around the cards, not through them).

Always wanting to do something different with my cards, one day I decided to take all my cards back out of the plastic sheets, to arrange them in teams, or by number, I don't recall. I took scissors and smoothly trimmed the cards out of the sheets . . . until I got to my boffo 1950 Bowman Ted Williams card.

That card was one of some 150-200 cards a work colleague of my dad's had given to me upon learning I collected baseball cards. Anyway, to my sorrow, I accidentally clipped off one of the corners of that big-time card. I recall my reaction decades ago - one of disbelief, and I could feel my face go red and the temperature rise in my face, and I sensed an overall breathlessness I can still conjure up in memory (similar to when your best girl dumps you). God, what a fool was/am I!

Here's the card, which I still have (it's so nice otherwise):

Doesn't my camera suck?!

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