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I was in high school, a junior I think. The summer before my dad's good friend gave me.....straight up gave me a 1940 playball Shoeless Joe Jackson, pretty darn good condition too. 

I took it home and put it in my PC.....was this good enough? Nope not for me, I had to show it off to someone so I took the metal box I had filled with my most prized cards to school, Showed them to a few people as the day went on....when I went back to my locker after school to get my box pack up and leave it was gone. the whole box. 

One of the dumbest things I've ever done. My father asked me about it a while later and I pretended I couldn't find it and blamed it on the movers that moved us from NJ to VA. 

Heavily investing in david justice, gregg jeffries and kevin maas.......

Went to TG&Y and they had an entire counter full of 86-87 Fleer basketball cards for 10 cents/pack.  Wife told me to get all I wanted.  I got ONE pack because I didn't collect basketball at the time but wanted to see what the cards were like.  I got the Jordan out of that pack and a few months later movers were in packing everything up because I was moving to Indonesia and I gave the pack, including the Jordan, to one of the guys packing stuff up.

Noooooooooooooo .... Say it ain't so...!!!

Ahhhh yes... Kevin Maas. I remember the hype very well!

I received a one card trade. I don't recall who the player was. Or the set. The card came in a over sized padded envelope, in a top loader. It looked like the person I traded with used a half roll of duct tape to seal the whole top loader to about the size of a baseball. The was no way I could get at the card. I don't recall what I said to the other trader.

In 2015 I had a flood. I posted pictures on Cardboard History at the time but I don't want to look at them again, so if you want to see them you'll have to check my archive from February 2015.

To add insult to injury it happened on the anniversary of my dad losing his battle with cancer. 

Sorry for the loss of your dad Billy.

Approximately 12,000 - 13,000 baseball cards lost in a flood. 

Bright side - one box of 5,000 was mostly 1991 Topps.

Down side - the other 5,000 count box was all my commons from 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1981.

The other bright side - the other box that had 2 or 3 thousand - was all Star Co stuff. Sad, but it was free stuff.

I bought and ripped my first pack of OPC hockey cards back in 1977. I collected baseball, football and hockey until about the year 2000, by this time I was up to about 30,000 cards. I had mint complete sets of WHA and NHL from the 60's,  70s and 80's, all the early Gretzky stuff all in plastic and binders.

Alas I didn't take care of my wife and kids as good as my cards and eventually a divorce lawyer came calling. In time the house was emptied and I stuffed the car full of my things and off I went to another life. The problem was all I owned was a piece of crap little Red Chevy Corsica with a fist hole in the dash and I couldn't fit all of my cards in the car. It was the last load and I decided to come back later  the next day and get them. A week later I got back and found that the back door to the house had been kicked in and my cards, boxes and all the binders were gone.

I was at a crossroads  in my life,  I thought at the time that it was a sign that I should grow up and put my cards away. I was distraught but I had to  let it go because  there was nothing I could do about it, I was never going to get them back. I never opened up another pack or looked at another card until last September almost 20 years on. I know I can never replace what I lost but now it doesn't matter as much, I am having fun with it again. True Story.