Sticker memories

This post was inspired by James. I read his Sticker Memories article earlier this week and started recalling several of my own sticker memories. Sports stickers Most of my earliest memories about stickers are related to sports. I remember collecting stickers for baseball teams. I used a lot of those stickers to decorate the dugout or the field of the baseball games I use to play with plastic baseball players. My dad built fences and dugouts for my field out of wood. Originally, I had set up fields in our attic, drawing chalk lines on the plywood floor. Later when my dad transformed that same attic into my bedroom, I requested that half of the room have tile so that I could set up my baseball fields. I used masking tape for the baselines and lamented brown construction paper around the bases. My hometown team, Kansas City Royals, played on astroturf so the only dirt on the field was around the bases with a big circle around home plate. My dad made dugouts of wood and we painted them a…