Fred Eckhardt hails from Boyd and his postcards help him keep the good old days alive. He’s been collecting for 40 years. Eckhardt is on a quest to get a card from every town in Minnesota and South Dakota- that means stops at garage sales during his cross-country trips. It was during one of those stops at an Illinois farm nearly 30 years ago, that he found something unusual. “And then I saw these two cards. I don’t know anything about baseball cards. I asked the lady at the farm- how much? She said $5. I said, I’ll take a chance."
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