I was 8 years old and the first pack was 1964 Topps from a local 1960's convenience store named Ellison Grocery in Kings Mountain, NC.
My dad who was a huge baseball fan would buy me boxes when they came in. Cost was a nickel a pack or $1.20 for a 24 pack box. Seemed expensive then. Of course gas was as low as $.179/gal. Five cards per pack + 1 coin as well as I remember + that wonderful piece of bubble gum.
Certainly don't remember which cards came from first pack but I was ticked that I kept getting Mickey Mantles instead of Willie Mays. Had no idea that the boxes I kept opening were first series and Mays was not in it.
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