What was your first T card?

[SteveMitchell]

[FONT="Georgia"]The year was either 1963 or '64 and I (a young teen) attended with my family a Maine country auction one Saturday evening in North Yarmouth. We attended fairly regularly for the entertainment value and the possibility of obtaining some treasure for the proverbial song. But, to that date, no baseball cards had ever been offered.

This night, five big old cards came up for bid. As I had no American Card Catalog for reference until 1966 or '67, I only knew they were old cards and definitely worth all I had to spend: 75 cents. The bidding started at 25 cents (my bid) and it appeared I would have a real bargain ... until another upped me by a quarter. I came back with 6 bits and won the lot.

Best card was a Turkey Red (T3) of Wildfire Schulte and that's the one I consider my "first" T card.

That card went, together with the balance of my childhood collection, to Frank Nagy - who got me re-started in collecting within days of that sale!