Four Baggers and Foreclosures

My parents house was destroyed by fire on May 5th of this year. After the fire, we tried to salvage anything that wasn’t ruined by the fire, or the smoke and water that filled the house. Amongst the stuff that wasn’t completely destroyed, was some leftover pieces of my baseball collection. Which had stayed behind after my 1996 move to Denver, Colorado. Or was moved back to their house later, then back to Colorado, back to their house and eventually to the house Laura bought in our hometown. However, in the weeks before that fire, I pulled several boxes of my left behind stuff that dated back to early childhood in the late 1970’s, and brought them to my house.  One of the (pre-fire) boxes had a copy of Topps Magazine, from Spring 1993, mixed inside with some old children’s books. I hadn’t expected to find this, so I spent that afternoon scanning it for a future story. And now seems like a good time for showing that. I’d thought that I thrown out all my copies of Topps Magazin...