It is nothing special and it has got pretty beat up in the last twenty some years (I didn't know anything about protecting cards as a kid), but this is my first ever ball card. I'm not quite sure where I got it, actually I think I found it somewhere. (Those are not really creases they are personality marks)
It is a 1986 Topps Record Breaker #7 Walter Payton. As a kid Walter Payton was my favorite football player. I loved watching him run back then. I even named my oldest son Payton after him.
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Pretty soon a grocery store started carrying football cards in my town and I switched back to collecting football but my favorite baseball team continued to be Boston. I collected football cards till 1998 (i have a ton of football to trade, e-mail me if you have some football needs) when it got to expensive to buy cards and chase women. When I got the itch to buy some cards again I started buying baseball instead of football. It was the Heritage sets that drug me back into the hobby. I accidentally came across this Boston blog (Touching All The Bases) with it's random card of the day and some links to a few baseball card blogs. After reading blogs for a few weeks and making a few trades I jumped in headfirst with Thoughts and Sox.
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