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EricI thought this was an interesting post, which I can highly relate to. My father and his father both collected baseball cards, for which I secured portions of both collections. My fathers collection (one shoebox full) was primarily mid-late 1960's Topps baseball cards, which he collected from junior high to high school. He said that he had collected Topps cards starting in the late fifties, but most of the early stuff was "pitched out" by his mother.
My grandfathers collection was much smaller, but much more rewarding. He passed along about 30-40 1933 Goudey cards to me when I was about 13 years old. This is when I completely fell in love with vintage cards. Although there weren't any great cards in the lot, the idea of having baseball cards that were (at the time) 50+ years old, was very cool. What was even cooler, was the fact that we had saved them all those years! He had mentioned to me at the time that he had hundreds of the Goudey cards at one time, but most were lost or given away (say it ain't so!). His Goudey's started my vintage card collection and interest though, and in the mid-1990's after I graduated from college, I began collecting again for good.