Dave's Favorite Baseball Cards (Part I)

This is the 1984 Donruss Don Mattingly rookie card. I bought approximately 100,000,000 packs of these hideous cardboard rectangles in futile attempts to attain the "holy grail" of the summer of '84. It was worth $90 at the time and one of my grade school friends had one. Every time we would trade cards, he'd offer up this prize only to say, "PSYCH!" as the cards were about to change hands.

I'm sure his mom wound up tossing his cards in the dumpster or he sold them for beer money in college. I simply bought it (along with the Topps and Fleer versions) off of eBay for $20 last year, more than 20 years later! So, to that grade school friend and all the "psychs" from 1984-86, K my A buddy!