Some wonderful stories here.
My card is a 69 Reggie Jackson. In 69 I bought one pack, the 5c was my entire penny candy budget for that trip. (Old fashioned town, with an old fashioned pharmacy that carried all sorts of penny candy wonders. Plus a grocery where Marilyn sometimes had shopped)
Getting back to the car after another errand or two dad asked what players I'd gotten. When I showed him he remarked that Reggie was pretty good.
I pretty much forgot about the card, and somehow didn't buy any in 70, maybe one pack in 71, and another in 72. The cards ended up in the toybox, and about the only thing I kept track of was the 71 coin, which was usually in the toybox, but sometimes in the typical boys box of interesting stuff.
Forward to 74, we're in a new town, and I got into cards in 73 right after we moved. The Hank Aaron specials are making me interested in older cards. Remembering the other cards I had a "search" was on. (Probably started with the toybox, so a brief search) I found the coin, and most of the cards. Including the Reggie Jackson. It's pretty beat from the 5 years it spent in a box with tonka trucks, Hot wheels, lincoln logs and a bunch of whatever else I'd gotten, but I still think of it as my first card.
Steve B
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