Back when I was a kid, I remember going to the grocery store with my mom and picking out packs of gum whenever we were in the checkout line. Before my go-to flavor was mint, I'd stock up on Bazooka ...

Topps hasn't included a stick of gum inside its pack of baseball cards for years. But I still miss it. Not because I miss chewing the gum. Lord, no! My friend Scooter gave me a couple-decades-old pack ...