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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Paul Carek
For me, it was opening packs of 1973 Topps, purchased from the concession stand at Pee Wee Park, the little league field in Bowling Green, Ohio. I remember how the wax paper felt, how the gum smelled, and how much of a bummer it was to realize, the following spring, how "old-fashioned" my stack of about 200 cards had suddenly become. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Phil Garry
For me it was opening up 1977 Topps packs and putting together my first hand collated set. I especially liked Dave Parker and the Pittsburgh Pirates back then..... |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Steve F
Flipping cards on the sidewalk for 1967 and '68 Topps Red Sox and Bruins cards. I generally lost as most of the kids were older, thus more crafty. These are the same slugs that years earlier would trade me their nickels for my dimes, "Nickels are better, 'cuz they're bigger, like quarters!" |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Michael Steele
Opening 1966 Topps packs and then cutting the "rookie stars" cards in two to have more cards . |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: JohnnyH
It was december of 1978 in Little Falls MN, we had just finished a Squirt Hockey game against them and won which was huge because we always lost to them. I scored my first goal ever that day and was on cloud 9 !! We were on our way home and stopped at a gas station and in the store I was looking at all the candy and my dad handed me a pack of hockey cards, I didn't know what they were but after getting in the car and opening them up, well, I've been addicted ever since. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Doug
I always enjoyed going to the local drug store as a kid and buying 1985 Topps wax packs. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: RayB
1868 Topps. I bought tons of packs. When 69's came out I passed along a huge shoebox of 68's to a cousin. Boy I wish I had those now. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Paul Carek
1868 Topps? How old are you, anyway, Ray? |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: David McDonald
It was 1956 and I was six years old. I had eight or nine cards from somebody who thought "give 'em to the kid". I had never seen a baseball card before then. I was playing with them on the floor in my room. Amongst them I distinctly remember a '54 Topps Ernie Banks and a '56 Topps Del Ennis. Loved that little Cubbie on the Banks and loved the way Ennis leapt in to the air. Started collecting Topps in '57, nickle a pack. Always carried my rubberbanded stack to school. My Uncle Harry owned a cigar store in Brooklyn. One time he surprised me with a whole box; Gluttony became my first Deadly Sin. Thanks, Uncle Harry. He had the most awesome candy counter in his store. How I yearn to time-travel back to those days. Think I better go BIN some cardboard, maybe a nice '54 Banks. Maybe the feeling would pass. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: JDRUM
I remember buying a pack of 1966 Topps @ IGA and pulling a Sonny Seibert. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Paul Carek
Love the "whole box" story, David. I received a whole box of '74 Topps as a First Communion present and felt like I was (ahem) in heaven. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: mark s.
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
I opened up the Red-White-Blue LEAF packs in 1949 to find Babe Ruth's, Joe DiMaggio's, Ted Williams', Stan Musial's, |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Chris Counts
In the spring of 1970, when I was nine, my mom sent me to the grocery store to buy some broccoli. For reasons I have never been able to explain, I spent the money on baseball cards. As I was walking home, my dad drove by and picked me up. I explained to him what happened and he took it in stride, driving back to the grocery store, where he bought some broccoli and some more baseball cards. These were 1970 Topps cards, and I recall the posters that came with them. Ollie Brown was in the first pack and Willie Davis was in the second. I was hooked then and I still am ... |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Jim VB
I've told this story before, but here goes. As a little kid we lived in NYC. (I'm talking late 1950's to mid 1960's.) My Dad worked for the A&P Grocery chain, in their Brooklyn plant in the old Bush Terminal. He was the Superintendent of Shipping and Receiving. One of his duties was to co-ordinate the trash pick up at the plant. This put him in contact with the trash hauler who also handled the Topps plant nearby. Knowing that my Dad had 2 sons, he would often drop off uncut sheets that Topps was throwing out for some reason. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Bob Manning
First card memory: |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Daryle
It was around March 1982. A cousin of mine had started collecting cards in 1981. He came down and mentioned to me and another cousin of ours that we should start collecting cards so we could trade around. Sooooooo.....I went home and asked my older brother if he had ever collected. he said that he had some in his room in a drawer, to go look. I went in there and......1975 and 1976 Topps cards including a 1975 Munson and Frank Robinson. I then started stopping every day after school to get my 30 cent pack of Topps, Donruss or Fleer. The rest is history........(I remember getting Football cards and Hockey cards back in those years---1981s and 1982s.....we used to "flip" the football cards....we had probably 20-25 Montana Rookies between us.....all with dinged up corners....I remember having a 5000 ct box of football at one one time from years 1981-1986......there was like 10-15 each of Montana, Elway, Marino and Rice RCs.....sold the whole box for like $50 bucks........not to mention the Gretzky cards) |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: David M
So Jim, do you remember the earliest sheet you ever got to cut up? Was it only baseball, or did you get to cut up other sports and non-sports? Wow, that had to be quite a treat as a kid! I'm jealous. My earliest baseball card memory is getting the game cards out of the 1968 Topps. It's funny, I don't remember the cards themselves, but there was just something about those game cards... And my earliest card memory is the 1966 Batman. We all loved Batman as kid. Sorry, even before we liked baseball! |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Jim VB
I was born in 1955, so I don't remember much of the early years of cutting. My brother was born in 1946, so he was the chief culprit in the 1956-1961 range. I do remember cutting the 1962's with that wood grain edging. Then, suddenly, around 1965, our supply dried up and I never knew why. At that same time, the A&P was consolidating 3 plants into a new facility upstate NY and we moved. Until recently I always assumed that was the reason for no more free cards. Years later, I found that was when Topps had moved their printing to Duryea, PA. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Dan Bretta
My first baseball card memories are cutting out the cards off of boxes of HoHo's and Twinkies....I also recall getting the 3D cards out of Frosted Flakes. I'm not sure which of those events took place first, but I can distinctly recall both of them. I'm pretty sure my first pack of cards I bought was 1975. I remember a kid coming to school with a small stack of the colorful 75's and thinking they were about the coolest things I'd ever seen. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: MATT
my dad brought home a pack of 1966 topps. I remember like it was yesterday looking for mets and loving the design. I think I threw them in a drawer. I remember a similar experience with the 68's. and then in 70 is when I really started collecting. Buying packs with money I scrounged with my friends at the local Rexall's drug store. My friend used to steal them but I was too afraid. Funny is that I dont remember the 67's or 69's when I was a kid. Probably because of the uninteresting design. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Clint
In 1977 a friend on my dad's bowling team opened a shop in the bowling alley. I worked there on the weekends and got to open the new cards and sort them. My first cards were 1961 dinosaur NU Cards. Baseball season was over but I remember opening packs of Star Wars and football. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Eric Brehm
1966 Topps was the first set I collected. The colors they used for the team banners in the upper left hand corner will be forever etched in my mind. I will always associate the color red with the Yankees and Dodgers, yellow with the Tigers and Cardinals (even though the Cardinals should obviously be a red team), blue with the Twins and Reds, and so on. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Dave Williams
1971 my mom gave me a pack of Topps from the Dairy store. I only remember one card, Steve Carlton. I was a Cardinal fan, and immediately took a pair of scissors to it, so it would fit in the picture section of my wallet. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Richard Cline - RC
It had to be 1966 since I have some of those from my original collection but what I really remember is the 1967 Topps, loved going to the local store to pick them up for a nickel and quickly opening to see who was inside. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Rob
My first memory was being given a 1986 Topps factory set - probably as my 8yr birthday present. I loved them so much that I started taping them to my bedroom door. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: J.McMurry
1973-74-75 topps. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Mike
1957. The first series had dried up and the second series was out. I still needed several cards to complete the first series. One of which was Frank Robinson. Then came the news. This local mom and pop grocery store on the other side of town still had first series. Three of us on bikes were on our way. The store had about 3/4 of a box. We bought them all. First pack I opened there was Frank Robinson. Remains one of my favorite cards of all time. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Chris
My first memory was the 1997 homerun race. I was seven years old and my dad bought so many sammy sosa and mark mcgwire cards for me. It seemed like everyday he brought home a box of cards. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Chris
did i say '97, I meant '98, which means I was 8 years old. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Jerry
Not my first memory but a memorable one. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Jamie Boneparth
83 Topps. I was seven years old, turning eight. In my first pack I saw a Tony Gwynn. I knew very little about him, but was impressed by his highest batting average. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: boxingcardman
My parents took me out for ice cream after dinner at the Chinese restaurant at the mall in Mahopac, NY and my father bought me a pack of 1971 Topps. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Todd Schultz
I'm surprised to see so many here claim 1966 as the year they first discovered cards--same for me. I know I've told this story before and more than once, probably even on this forum. 1966 Mankato MN, Ben Franklin at the Tempo shopping center. Rode my bike the 2 1/2 blocks, pulled a Sandy Valdespino. Also collected the Philly football cards that year, and a few Topps FB as well (and mustn't forget Batman cards). Like Eric, I associated the teams with their banner/nameplate colors, which is why I did not like the '67s. Came back strong in 1968, buying my first box at age 9, and by '69 I was a four sport collector. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Eric Brehm
Todd -- I was disappointed in the '67's also. Though many now hail them as one of the best sets of the 1960's. As you said, at least in '68 and '69 they brought back the familiar color-coding for teams as they had used in '66. I built sets in '70 and '71 also, and that was about it for me, until the revival of the 1980's, when all of us now grown-ups revisited our childhoods. I also got interested in vintage cards like T206 and Goudey at that time. |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: John Moran
summer of 1970, seven years old I'm sure I nagged my Grandma until she bought me one of these: |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Rob
1966 was my first year also, and my first card, which I still own, was Sonny Seibert. My older sister and I were at the Kresge's in Arlingtin Heights, IL- My sister told me I was stupid to waste 5 cents on a pack of baseball cards! |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Jim VB
Rob, |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Ricky Y
My favorite memories go back to 1972-74 period... |
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Your first card-collecting memory
Posted By: Paul S
Me and my friends on the block, we got so many Topps '62 Berras we were putting them in our bike spokes. No lie. |
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