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Posted By: JimB

I started collecting cards out of packs in 1975. When I got to junior high in 1979 I met some guys who collected older cards and went to shows with their fathers. I remember trading for a 1960 Yogi Berra around that time from one of them. It floored me to own a card that was that old. Then I started going to shows and spending all of my allowance on baseball cards. I was mostly collecting '50s and '60s cards then, but eventually came across T206s at a card shop in the San Fernando Valley. Like Quan I was reading a lot about the real old-timers and had heard about tobacco cards, but I will never forget the feeling when I saw an actual TY COBB tobacco card in person. I traded the show half my collection for that card which he was asking $90 for at the time. That was my first pre-War card and of course my first T206. I just completed the T206 set in December, so it only took about 25 years.
JimB