Show A Card You've Owned For 30+ Years

[T206Collector]

Just occurred to me that I've owned this card since 1989. Can't believe that's 30 years ago. Show a card you've owned as long...

[commishbob]

I don’t know for certain when I bought this Matty but it was prior to getting married as I remember showing it to my roommates at my last apartment so it was 1982 or before.
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[slidekellyslide]

I've kept this card in my wallet for 35 years now. O'Brien was my favorite player at the University of Nebraska when I was a kid. It was thrilling to me when he made it to the major leagues.

[MVSNYC]

Maybe just shy of 30 years, but got these right around then...my first 3 T206 cards. Still have them.

[commishbob]

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

Maybe just shy of 30 years, but got these right around then...my first 3 T206 cards. Still have them.

Love how they look together in that display.

[commishbob]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

I've kept this card in my wallet for 35 years now. O'Brien was my favorite player at the University of Nebraska when I was a kid. It was thrilling to me when he made it to the major leagues.

#GBR One of my boys is a Husker, Class of 2010

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by commishbob

#GBR One of my boys is a Husker, Class of 2010

Class of 92 for me.

[68Hawk]

Had it for 29 or 30 years.

[commishbob]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

Just occurred to me that I've owned this card since 1989. Can't believe that's 30 years ago. Show a card you've owned as long...

What a terrific card!

[jchcollins]

The 86’s I know are from my original childhood collection, because they both have a thumbtack hole from where they once were affixed to the bulletin board in my childhood room.

The Mantle I can only credit as being somewhere around 28 years in my possession; I was 13 or 14 and it was either 1990 or 1991 at a card shop in Hickory, North Carolina where I traded virtually everything I owned of cardboard value up to that point to take the card home.





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[ullmandds]

i've posted this numerous times...my first tobacco card...acquired at one of my first shows with my dad c1982...$2.

[tedzan]

I pulled these cards from their waxpacks on these dates......


Fall of 1947 (my very first BB cards)







Early Spring of 1949 (I wouldn't dare flip my Ruth card, or place it on my bike's spokes)



Spring of 1949 (the Jackie Robinson card on the left)

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Fall of 1952 (my last BB card as a teenager....went on to cars and girls)





As an adult, I acquired these cards at BB card Shows...…

Spring of 1981 (My first T206)






Spring of 1989 (The start of my favorite set)




TED Z

T206 Reference
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[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by tedzan

I pulled these cards from their waxpacks on these dates......


Fall of 1947 (my very first BB cards)







Early Spring of 1949 (I wouldn't dare flip my Ruth card, or place it on my bike's spokes)



Spring of 1949 (the Jackie Robinson card on the left)

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Fall of 1952 (my last BB card as a teenager....went on to cars and girls)





As an adult, I acquired these cards at BB card Shows...…

Spring of 1981 (My first T206)






Spring of 1989 (The start of my favorite set)




TED Z

T206 Reference
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YOU, Sir - are amazing!

Thanks for sharing your memories.



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[ramram]

Ok, Ted Z wins. Awesome!

Rob M

[ullmandds]

Cant compete with ted...you have an amazing collection.

[ullmandds]

Ive had bob here since the early 80’s...i think i paid $35 from a mail order catalog.

[leftygrove10]

This was my first vintage Lefty Grove card. I bought it from the Sports Collectors Digest in 1987 when I was 16 years old.

[BBT206]

Bought a group of about 400 different T206 around 1983. These 4 were part of that lot.

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[KCRfan1]

Bill, those Cobb's are fantastic!

[Andrew1975]

My father bought this Cobb (along with a T205 Matty which I also have) at a show in the mid 80s. I remember it vividly, because they were the first prewar cards that we had ever bought. He paid $20 for each card. They hung in my bedroom in a frame, until I left for college. I got them graded a few years ago, and the grading fees were more than the cost of the cards...

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[t213]

Bought in 1979 off my local card store bidboard for $2.25


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[bbeck]

I was 15 years old back in 1976 and my dad took me to the Hotel Roosevelt in NYC. I had $9 in my pocket from snow shoveling and I purchased the T206 Johnson. I remember the dealer wanted $11 and I waited to the end of the show and the card was still there. He sold it to me for $9 after I explained my story. In 1977 we went back to the same location and we purchased the 1933 Ruth for $35. My dad thought it was absolutely crazy to spend so much money on a baseball card. He passed away 18 years ago and he loved to tell the story of how I had to beg him to purchase the card and what it was now worth. In 1978, we went to Montclair State College and I purchased the 34 Gehrig for $20. I was actually very condition conscious as a kid and would never buy a card with even a slight hairline crease. I never minded a little bit of corner wear. You really did not have to worry about trimming or restorations as the only trimming was not done maliciously, but typically to fit a card into an album page. In 1978, I purchased a beautiful condition autographed 1939 Playball Joe Dimaggio (that I still own) at a card store on Springfield Avenue in Union, N.J. In the late 1990's I went to have it authenticated and it turned out Joe's sister had signed the card. She did a pretty good Dimaggio and I guess signed a lot of his mail auto requests. I always set aside a portion of my earned dollars (summer jobs, snow shoveling) back then for cards. I looked for Hall of Fame Allen and Ginter's, Gypsy Queen's, T206's and Goudey's and fortunately saved them all (except for one trade I regret with an adult dealer when I was around 16). I have graded the majority of the cards but I never had the heart to entomb the 3 cards in the scans. The Johnson is beautiful and should grade extremely well. At the time, I never thought of any of my cards as an investment, just a great time with my dad and some great memories.

[ullmandds]

great cards BOB!!!

[oldjudge]

Bob—Those are beautiful! What Gypsy Queens do you have?

Jay

[bbeck]

Jay-I had Brouthers and Keefe but the Brouthers was actually involved in the dealer trade. I had to trade 2 for 1 in perceived value with him and as a young kid I did not know any better. When I eventually graded the Keefe with PSA it came back as a 5. The Brouthers was much nicer than the Keefe. They were N162's from the Goodwin set

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by bbeck

Jay-I had Brouthers and Keefe but the Brouthers was actually involved in the dealer trade. I had to trade 2 for 1 in perceived value with him and as a young kid I did not know any better. When I eventually graded the Keefe with PSA it came back as a 5. The Brouthers was much nicer than the Keefe. They were N162's from the Goodwin set

And Bob, I remember meeting your dad about 25 years ago at my dad's house at St. Andrews in Boca Raton, and we spent the day talking baseball. He was indeed a very nice man.