bringing early pulls back to the forefront

i have about 15 monster boxes filled with cards that don't necessarily fit in my collection. one of those boxes contains my o-pee-chee cards that aren't bindered or boxed as sets. i have my dodger o-pee-chee cards in my dodger binders, and i have a binder that contains all of the variations that i showed over at oh my o-pee-chee! a few years back. i also have my 1977 and 1978 o-pee-chee complete sets in a binder.

the monster box includes non-variation cards as well as duplicates of variation cards and duplicates of cards from my completed sets. i was digging through this box a few months ago and decided to pull this card out

that's reggie jackson's 1978 o-pee-chee card, which is more easily identified by looking at the back:

i decided to extricate this card from the box so that i could add it to my "meaningful and just because' collection due to the fact that this was one of the cards that i pulled from a pack back in the summer of 1978 while visiting family in southern saskatchewan. it's seen a few things and has been shuttled around from boxes to binder to boxes since it was pulled from a pack, but now it's in its final resting place - until i go to my final resting place.

another box contains some of my vintage cards that exist outside of my primary collection. having completed all of the topps sets from 1970 through 2009, along with 1957 and 1965, most of these cards are duplicates. i took from that box this 1978 topps steve garvey card

which was also a pack pull from 1978. this card was in my dodger collection for a long time until i upgraded sometime after the advent of ebay. in fact, i still have a bunch of my pack pulled cards from 1978 in one of my complete sets (i completed an upgraded set without dismantling the one i put together back in real time). 

these two cards join my 1977 topps bill travers card (pulled from the very first pack of baseball cards i ever opened) and my 1978 o-pee-chee ron cey card (also pulled from a pack in 1978) in my "meaningful and just because" collection. the cey card has a pinhole from where i pinned it to my wall upon returning home from the great white north that summer, and has also been signed by the penguin himself.

i already had a 1978 topps garvey card in that collection, in much nicer condition, but i don't mind having another - especially with the lineage. now if only i still had the cards from my first pack of basketball cards, which included a kareem and a darryl dawkins rookie.