Sporting a Twins cap atop my crew-cut head and armed with a fistful of dollar, I’d race to the corner store every Friday to buy baseball cards.

I was not only a die-hard Minnesota Twins fan but also a baseball fanatic. As much as I wanted a Tony Oliva or Bobby Allison card, I’d get just as excited if I landed a Willie Mays or Henry Aaron one - tempered enthusiasm for a Mantle card because I despised the Yankees.

In 1968, the Twins were good and at 9 years old, I was in the prime of my baseball card collecting career.

My dad gave me my $1 allowance every Friday and before he could assign more chores, I hightailed it to the store to splurge on baseball cards - 10 cents a pack.

I’d take my time opening them, praying there would be a Twin inside.

But it seemed like each pack was loaded with Tony Taylor or Cookie Rojas cards.

As much joy as Phillie fans feel right now is how frustrated I would get after acquiring my fifth Johnny Callison card.

The Phillies in 1968 were a band of players that no collector, except for the fervent Phillie fan, wanted.

Taylor played third base and smacked a whopping three home runs that season. Alec Bohm might not be Mike Schmidt yet, but geez at least he hit 13 this season in his first full season as a regular.

Cookie Rojas - I admit I liked his name and professorial eyeglasses - hit just .232 with an almost that-can’t-be-right on base percentage of .248. Jean Segura is no Joe Morgan, but Phillie fans take heart he’s not Cookie-esque.

As the World Series with the Houston Astros unfolds, ardent Phillie fans should dig around their attics for their card collection or go online and call up that 1968 Phillies’ team.

Scroll down the roster and take note that starters Rick Wise (9-15) and Woodie Fryman (12-14) will never ever be mentioned in the same sentence - except this one - as Zack Wheeler and Aaron Nola.

Only Dick Allen (33) and Callison (14) hit double-digits in home runs in 1968. In fact, the lineup was so anemic that Rojas tied with first baseman Bill White - yep, same Bill White who went on to announce for the Yankees - for third on the team with nine homers. Rhys Hoskins (30 in the regular season) has five in the postseason alone.

So in celebration of the Phillies making the World Series, go ahead and buy a few packs of baseball cards - you don’t have to race to the corner store anymore, you can do it from your living room while munching on Crackerjacks.

Take your time opening them and keep your fingers crossed that inside is a Hoskins, J.T. Realmuto or Wheeler card.

And because I’m rooting for the Phils but not a big Philly fan, I’ll trade the Bryce Harper card I have to an avid Phillie fan for three Tony Taylors, two Don Moneys and one Cookie Rojas.