From a different geographical perspective I grew up in the south. We bought baseball cards from time to time in the Summer when we found them but most kids only knew the Yankees and Cardinals players.
When school started we would all stop by the local candy/pet store by our grade school to buy football cards. Since college football was and is so big down here we enjoyed the stickers or pennants included as much as the cards I think.
I didn't start buying until 1960 on both but really kicked it into gear in 1962 on both sports. I stopped buying baseball after the 1963 season but kept buying football until 1967. In our area I never saw anything other than Topps for both sports except a local laundramat I walked past had a vending machine with 5 cent Fleer baseball packs in 1963. We had a washing machine (Mom hung our clothes out to dry) but I would stop by the laundramat to watch the machines!
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