First Baseball Pack?

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Posted By: Lee Behrens

The first pack I ever opened was a 1970. With every nickel saved we would run to the store which was a few blocks away and buy what we could. What a thrill if you could afford more than one pack. We were always looking for the Jerry Koosman card since my mother went to High school with him, and my personal favorite was Harmon Killebrew. I had just been talking about how kids now a days don't have the small town store to run to and buy that one pack you could afford.

I do remember saving up enough money one time to buy a whole box, I had to hide it from my mom and leak the cards out here and there so it didn't look so obvious but what a thrill of opening a whole box. The main goal at that time was completing the set and the duplicates were just trade bait no matter who they were unlees they were Twins. My hours of my young life were spent sorting through these cards and I still have them all.

Lee