First, shoutout to @Mavfatha for mentioning Showdown, Yu-Gi-Oh! and OOTP Perfect Team, because showdown was one of my favorite things as a kid and the latter two are things I love now haha (I just pulled a 98 Nolan Arenado and I'm goddamn hyped!! 
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Rylant Wright was always a card collector as a child. He loved to watch all sports on TV, and play them as well, so naturally he loved another way to feel connected to sports, and that was card collecting. He had binders on top of binders on top of binders of cards of all sorts. With his OCD, he made sure that all the cards were ordered by team and then alphabetized within the binders. In order to make this possible, he always made sure that he had ample space, so that he didn't have to rearrange his binder to fit one card.
He loved his cards, he still does. But now, an adult, just out of college, he doesn't have all his binders with him, they're safe at home. He does have two cards, though, which he keeps on his desk in his room. One is a Zack Wheeler 2015 card for the New York Mets. Wheeler is Wright's favorite player, and so he keeps it with him wherever he goes. The other is John Farrell, who many know as the old Red Sox manager, but was also a player for the Cleveland Indians back in the day. What's the significance, you may ask? The Farrell card was given to him by one of his campers who was moving to a different state at summer's end, and therefore wouldn't return to the camp which Rylant worked. That is why that card has meaning to him.
Wright loves card collecting, and through the years, Wright feels that card collecting loves him right back, because of the joy he gets from doing so.
(the two things are true, I'm sitting here at my desk and both cards are looking back at me!)
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Rylant Wright was always a card collector as a child. He loved to watch all sports on TV, and play them as well, so naturally he loved another way to feel connected to sports, and that was card collecting. He had binders on top of binders on top of binders of cards of all sorts. With his OCD, he made sure that all the cards were ordered by team and then alphabetized within the binders. In order to make this possible, he always made sure that he had ample space, so that he didn't have to rearrange his binder to fit one card.
He loved his cards, he still does. But now, an adult, just out of college, he doesn't have all his binders with him, they're safe at home. He does have two cards, though, which he keeps on his desk in his room. One is a Zack Wheeler 2015 card for the New York Mets. Wheeler is Wright's favorite player, and so he keeps it with him wherever he goes. The other is John Farrell, who many know as the old Red Sox manager, but was also a player for the Cleveland Indians back in the day. What's the significance, you may ask? The Farrell card was given to him by one of his campers who was moving to a different state at summer's end, and therefore wouldn't return to the camp which Rylant worked. That is why that card has meaning to him.
Wright loves card collecting, and through the years, Wright feels that card collecting loves him right back, because of the joy he gets from doing so.
(the two things are true, I'm sitting here at my desk and both cards are looking back at me!)
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