Best pack,you ever open!No inserts!

[pherbener]

1974 Topps Hank Aaron #1 Home Run King! I was 7 years old. I remember getting what seemed like 20 Aaron specials but could never get the big one. Can't tell you how excited I was to finally pull that one!

[clydepepper]

1964 - Checking out at the A&P, Mom gives me a nickel and I get my first pack- no Mantle, but a Bobby Richardson and that was good enough - at the time.

[EvilKing00]

opening packs with rookies of bonds and maddux were always exciting... at the time. A few years ago i opened a pact with a 1952 reprint willie mays which was signed.

[sycks22]

It was fun getting a '84 Topps Mattingly on the one pack I bought at the store that day when I was a kid.

[Leon]

I bought one "pack" of these 1930 Rogers Peet cards on ebay about 12-15 yrs ago....asked the seller if they had anymore and then bought 4 more just like them. They got them from their deceased relative, who worked for Rogers Peet, as they were going through one of his clothes drawers. They all had Cobbs and all ended up grading 6-8.... Each pack was $200...

[rjackson44]

75 topps minis ,,,don't remember what I pulled .got them from my dad who was candy and tabacco wholesaler ,,

[Rich Klein]

When Al Rosen made his famed Paris Tennessee Find I opened a few 1960 Topps Packs at John Broggi's store.

In the first few packs, I got a Mickey Mantle #350 card and realized I could not do any better. Such a thrill back the 1980's to get a Mantle from a pack.

Rich

[mikemb]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

When Al Rosen made his famed Paris Tennessee Find I opened a few 1960 Topps Packs at John Broggi's store.

In the first few packs, I got a Mickey Mantle #350 card and realized I could not do any better. Such a thrill back the 1980's to get a Mantle from a pack.

Rich

Rich - Was that his store in Highland Park, NJ?

[darkhorse9]

In 1974, opening a pack and getting THREE Washington Nat'l Lea. Cards.

I had only heard rumours about them until then.

[T205 GB]

Maybe 10 yrs ago I negotiated a large deal with a guy and it included an unopened 57 Topps pack. As soon as I got home I washed my hands and opened the pack up. Out came a mint Clemente. Sold it for a nice profit and was later told PSA gave it a 9. I think we both did very well on the deal. Wish I still had the cards

[jbsports33]

I was 8 or 9 and pulled a Ricky Henderson RC card from a 1980 Topps pack

After so many years of collecting, I still look back at that day

Jimmy

These were opened by a vendor in front of me at Columbus Flea Market, NJ in the early 80's and selling on the spot

[MacDice]

Not vintage but pulling an Upper Deck Griffey Jr in 1989 was pretty exciting for a 15 year old

[FourStrikes]

earliest recollection was 1972 Topps- WTF was a "boyhood photo of the "stars" when the first card I ever recall seeing from an unopened pack was Bob Bailey??? was BOB BAILEY ever a "star"?????

didn't have ANY clue (SABR-wise, etc) what determined what a "star" was, but...1972 Topps devirginized THIS (at the time) 7-year old to cards, and it's been (lovingly, in so many ways) all downhill (?) since then.

DS

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by MacDice

Not vintage but pulling an Upper Deck Griffey Jr in 1989 was pretty exciting for a 15 year old

That was fun in 89...the whole 80's was fun opening all that junk wax.



One of the coolest pack openings for me was in 1991. I was not collecting at the time and was with my wife shopping. Bored I found a box of wax packs at the mall and bought a couple packs. Hated the cards immediately, haha. A couple packs in I pull a 1970 Topps Cito Gaston (semi-high) card. I was SHOCKED. It was super crisp, but severely OC. I then read on the wrapper that they were inserting vintage cards in packs as a promotion. I went home and threw the little stack of cards in a drawer and forgot about them. When I got back into collecting vintage sets I remembered that pull...dug until I found that Cito, and made sure that card was in my 1970 set. That was the year I was born...so to me it is SUPER cool I have a 1970 card in my set I pulled from a pack. Kind of geeky...but I love it, it's my favorite card in that binder.