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Collector Ben Smith, Midwest Box Breaks helping break stigma of breakers

Ben Smith's story starts out like many others. Collected as a kid but was eventually pulled away by other things that draw our attention, only to return when the nostalgia bug bites us again.

Smith’s entrance to the hobby started in 1983 with a Topps Baseball pack that contained a Tony Gwynn rookie card and Jesse Barfield’s second-year card, but it was the more

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