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Hearken back to a time when you may have been sitting on the front stoop of your family’s home, flipping through baseball cards with your friends on a warm summer afternoon. You open a brand new pack, smell the sugary sweetness of that slab of pink gum included in every package and start shuffling the pristine cards between your right thumb and index finger.

“Got it, got it, got it, need it, got it, need it, got it, need it, need it, got it.”

In the world of sports cards, or sports itself, there’s no greater divide: What do you already have? What do you need? What must stay? What can go?