In 1983, a Wisconsin radio announcer joked that a B-29 bomber would drop 2,000 Cabbage Patch Kids into Milwaukee County Stadium. People should bring catcher’s mitts, and whoever grabbed a doll needed to hold up their credit card to be photographed. At least a dozen people actually showed up. Such was the epic Cabbage Patch Kids craze of 1983. The doll was in such rabid demand that shoppers camped overnight at toy stores, stormed displays, and mobbed parking lots.

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