Next Break! 1986 Topps Rak Packs!

Found a seller over on FeeBay selling sealed boxes of 1986 Topps Rak Packs at what seems like a reasonable price, so I purchased a box.  Should be here early next week and I will post the break at that time.

The 1986 Topps set was my introduction into baseball cards, so this is kind of a nostalgia break.  Back in...well...1986, my parents were stationed with The Salvation Army in Eugene, Oregon.  I was about to turn seven years old that summer, and was doing the typical end of summer "I am bored" routine that kids tend to do.  One day, someone brought in a box of 1986 Topps cards to the Thrift Store and the manager called my dad, because he knew that I was in to baseball.  My dad bought them and brought them home that evening.  We had a ton of fun going through the rows of cards, sorting them by team and looking for players we recognized.  It took a couple of days to get it all sorted, and we made dividers with team names on them to seperate the cards.  That was the start of my baseball card hobby - and I have many fond memories of my dad and I headed to shows and card shops around the area.

Here is one card in particular that I remember owning quite a few of:

Good old Cecil!  I had around eight or nine of these when he broke out after coming back from Japan and they were worth a decent amount.  Made some good trade bait!

Anyway, should be a fun break when they arrive!  If I manage to find some Topps Gypsy around here, I will try and pick it up in the meantime - I have yet to see even loose packs in the area.  So, stay tuned for a trip down memory lane when they arrive!