The Card That Got You Hooked

[Jcosta19]

1984 Topps Mattingly
He was /is my favorite player of my lifetime.
I had to ride my bike at age 13 about 6 miles each way every week to pay a few bucks at the local card shop until I paid it off (it was like $15-25) in the mid 90s.

Yes I still have it. Picked up a 84 Donruss for nostalgia purposes a year or 2 ago at a card show to go with it.

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[Exhibitman]

The first cards I really remember were 1971 Topps baseball and specifically Brooks Robinson. Still a favorite card.

[tulsaboy]

Sure! I still have the first cards from the first pack I opened, which was 1986 Topps. There was a Wade Boggs and an Eckersley in there. But the card that hooked me was the George Brett base card. When I got that one, I was in love. It's still safely in an 800 count box along with the rest of the 1986 set that I pieced together from packs with my dad. That will be the last box of cards that goes if I ever have to sell everything.
kevin

[ullmandds]

From my early collecting days...I recall desiring the 1975 topps mvp cards...the 1976 cards depicting all time greats...but I think the 1977 Burger King Pinella stands out as being a card I always coveted due to it's limited print run. I didn't acquire one until my 30's!

[skil55voy]

For me it's the 1962 Post Cereal Willie Mays. My favorite player on the back of a cereal box while pushing the shopping cart for my mom in the Food Fair. I saw the box, got excited and she bought the cereal. Still have my original card.

[drcy]

My first Pre-War card was 1933 Goudey from the Frisch catalog. They'd give you a random common and it was Jack Quinn.

My first T206 was Harry Pattee bought my dad at a Wisconsin card shop.

Though no specific card got me hooked. I just started collecting them when I was little, and bought Topps packs from a local grocery store.

[pokerplyr80]

I started collecting as a kid in 1989 so obviously the UD Griffey was the hot card at the time. Packs were 2 or 3 bucks each at the time. Never did pull one, but traded for one at some point later.

My first vintage card was a 58 Mantle/Aaron. I thought it was so cool that it had both players on it, and couldn't figure out why it was cheaper than a similar card with only one of them.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by tulsaboy

Sure! I still have the first cards from the first pack I opened, which was 1986 Topps. There was a Wade Boggs and an Eckersley in there. But the card that hooked me was the George Brett base card. When I got that one, I was in love. It's still safely in an 800 count box along with the rest of the 1986 set that I pieced together from packs with my dad. That will be the last box of cards that goes if I ever have to sell everything.
kevin

I also started with '86 Topps, age 9. The cards I still have that I know are originals I pulled from packs in '86, I can tell because some of them have thumbtack holes through them.

[dio]

First Card I owned got me hooked
1987 topps jose canseco, grew up in bay area when i was a kid, he and Will Clark are my favorite player

First Card i don't owned as a kid but got me hooked
1986 Donruss Jose Canseco, my dream card when i was a kid

First vintage card i bought when i get back into this hobby
1954 topps hank aaron SGC 7 for $1200

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

Pulled this rookie card (and some other Royals) out of a penny box in a Florida drug store while on a Disney vacation in the summer of 1985. They were the first cards I ever owned.

Later that fall I watched as he went on to win World Series MVP for my home town team.

In love with cards ever since.

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[jbsports33]

1980 Topps Rickey Henderson, pulled at a flea market from a sealed pack

The guy that sold it to me opened a card shop and I work for him on the weekends - I got paid in packs!

Pre-war was a T201 Double Fold Tris Speaker purchased in Boston, soon after I purchased the Barry Halper Auction books - read and completed it during the plane ride on my Honeymoon

Jimmy