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Anybody else flip baseball cards?

The best years were 1975/1976. Topps. Had to be Topps or you got beat up. Same rule applied to kids who wore Keds and not Converse. So the deal was you flipped until you matched the team your opponent just laid down. Winner took all as there was no crying in flipping. The best was a card we called "The Wall." The wall was a checklist of sorts that included every team in the league. When you laid that baby down it was a guaranteed win. The Wall came to be feared. Every kid in the neighborhood knew who had them and how many. The only way to beat the wall was on a tie. This was know as crunch time as whoever won the tie off had just taken their opponents wall card and usually this resulted in a guaranteed win in the end. Good players actually stacked their decks with wall cards in certain spots. I don't remember exactly how or why but we did it.

I used to rub my friends faces in it by taking their favorite cards as putting them in my bike spokes and riding in circles around them.

The city was a tough place back then...

I only have one left over myself. A Frank Tanana card. As an Angel. Not one of the three trillion teams he went to when he was washed up.

I remember when we used to have free for all days at school. Cards of course were contraband and eventually kids would get caught with them and have them get taken away. Every month or so we would steal them back. Word would spread through the school that a free for all was on. This meant everybody would assemble in the school yard after school and wait. Wait for the person on steal detail to open a third floor window, push the bars away, and let fly with hundereds of now free and available cards. It really was every kid for themself and fights sometimes even broke out.

Ah, good times, man.