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A Pocketful of Baseball Cards

A nickel bought five cards and a stick of pink gum that broke your tooth. And somewhere, in a shoebox, was the rest of a boy's summer.

News for the America we remember

The wax pack cost a nickel. Then a dime. Then a quarter, and by then something had already gone wrong with the country, though we couldn't have named it. You tore it open on the way out of the drugstore. Five cards and one flat, chalky, pink stick of gum that dusted the top card with sugar and would, if you were foolish enough to chew it, break a molar. Nobody chewed the gum. Nobody.

The cards you sorted immediately. Doubles for trading. Stars for the shoebox. Commons for the spokes of your bicycle, because a common card in the spokes made your Schwinn sound like a motorcycle, and this was considered a fair use of a Cesar Tovar or a Rich Rollins. Nobody in 1968 was thinking about resale value. There was no resale. You were nine.

We traded on the porch. On the school bus. In the dugout before Little League. Two Twins for a Yankee. Three commons for a rookie. A Mickey Mantle was untradeable, unowned, mythical, discussed in reverent tones by boys who had never actually seen one in a pack and never would. The cards told you the story of the summer. Whose average was climbing. Who was hurt. Who got traded and now wore the wrong colors on the wrong side of the card.

My mother threw mine away. Everybody's mother did. It's the American story. She cleaned the closet in 1974 when I was off at boot camp and there was a shoebox up on the top shelf and she made a decision. I have never held it against her, exactly, but I have also never entirely forgiven her. What the cards were for was a boy on a bicycle with a pack in his back pocket and a nickel he had earned redeeming pop bottles, riding home to a house where his father would say son, who did you

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