3,000 Hits...I mean Posts

[MVSNYC]

If we added up the OLD Net54 posts pre-this website, I'd likely have 6,000+, I've been on a "Leon" board for nearly 20 years. Always a fun time, never dull.

Shout out to my T206 Goonies (Ryan, Jamie, Chris, Sonny, Johnny, Sean)...and many others who have been great friends over the years (both inside the Hobby, and outside), Dar, Jay Wolt, Al C, Nex, Joe D, Jeff L, Wonka, Ted, Barry, Leon, Luke, Jay, The Levy's, etc, etc. Too many to list, thanks to everyone for your insights and fun deals.

Here's my very first T206 cards, acquired summer of 1991 (30+ years ago), I've been hooked ever since.

Let's have some fun, post your FIRST Vintage card(s) here!

[Leon]

Great stuff, Michael. My fist decent vintage card I got was from Brockelman (hey Scott) at a show he was set up at locally, 20+ years ago. I think I paid around 1650 for it. It was a PSA 7 Walter Johnson T205. I ended up selling it for about double that a few years down the road. That deal was made at a Taco Bell in Wylie, TX....

I have made lots of great hobby friends, and friends, from the board. I am always appreciative of being able to do it and having so many good people here. I never take it for granted.

and a random, 4 x 6, card...(shown before, of course )
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[Eggoman]

I'll play this one!

All of these came from my Grandpa when I was in my late teens! I NEVER knew that he had them! He KNEW that I collected cards, but he never said that he had any... And these were the only ones that he had!

I WAS SHOCKED! (He was a Piedmont smoker, but only had these - ALL Polar Bears!)

I got 'em graded many years later. When I sent them in, I was TERRIFIED that I would never get them back! I WILL NEVER SELL THEM!

Thanks, Gramps!

[mrvster]

and fellow goonie!!!!!!!!

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!

This place and the hobby wouldn't be the same without you my friend

My first was Roger Bresh batting raw......paid $20.00 for it....long since traded it.....

most of my firsts sadly gone

[Sean]

My first was Chick Gandil, and like Johnny my card is long gone.

[stutor]

Cool post Mike ! I still have my first prewar card (pic below) purchased ~1997. I bought it from SCP via an ad in a hobby magazine. There was no pic, but the guy on the phone described it as a ‘strong vg/ex’. When it arrived in the mail, it was the first t206 I had ever seen in person (there weren’t any card shows in or around MS that I’m aware of).

[MVSNYC]

Thanks guys!

Awesome cards, Let's see more!

[brianp-beme]

I recently posted this in another thread, but it is super on point on this one, so here it is, with a couple extra tidbits of info for those who saw it on the other thread:

These five at my first card show in 1981 at the first table on the right just as I walked into the show. They were my first vintage cards, and I spent about all the money I had with me on them...$11 total. Either the Matty or Johnson was $3, and the rest were $2 each.

They got me started in the vintage card hobby which I have never left, steered me to lower condition collecting, and as a result these cards are to blame for me having posted over 5000 times on this board. And I still have them all.

Brian

[judsonhamlin]

Look at you, Mike! Might be time for another NYC or even an NJ dinner

[judsonhamlin]

Some of these headed to LOTG

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by judsonhamlin

Some of these headed to LOTG

That's one table full of fun! Good luck with the auction.

Brian

[MVSNYC]

Great cards, everyone!

Judson, great hearing from you! And what a spread of cards, wow!

Yes, maybe we'll start an NYC Dinner thread for old time's sake.

I certainly also count you (and Robert Silverman) as great friends; always had fun at our dinners. Hope you're well.

[molenick]

The first vintage card I remember purchasing was a T206 Zach Wheat for $1 at a card show in 1973. I have no idea where that card is now (I know I did not sell it). I still hope to open a book I haven't looked at in 50 years and find that I used it as a bookmark!