We’re just nine days away from opening day and with that comes, irrational as it may be, eternal optimism…and a new series of baseball cards. For those of us who lived and died by just who was nestled up against that brittle pink gum (?), Sports I[getty id="36657" title="Baltimore Orioles v New York Yankees (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)" src="http://cbswncx2.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/82936704.jpg?w=385&h=256"]llustrated’s Steve Rushin has a great article on that very first pack

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