What was your first vintage baseball card??

[glchen]

Looking back at my records, my first prewar cards were a bunch of 1933 Goudey's which I picked up at the same time I was picking other modern 80s cards from my youth. I purchased these raw, and they were described by their sellers as VG-EX to NM and ended up grading poor to fair when I sent them into SGC. You can say that was my baptism as a newbie collector, and one of the reasons I am strongly TPG now.

For vintage, when I was a kid, my older cousin gave me his collection of beater 1973-75 cards which I always liked. I remember I had reprints of T206 Wagner and Magie which I looked at with reverance, but I never thought about collecting prewar then. It's like many people have said. A $6 card was a lot of money back then. I didn't even think about being able to afford really old cards. Just picking up a few 87 wax packs was enough for me back then.

[7nohitter]

When I was 16 I bought a '69 Ryan at a card show I ONLY paid $200 for it as there was a ding in the right hand corner...for a 16-yr old dropping $200 from a 'rough week' at Star Market in Natick was a big deal!!

[Zan]

[Big Six]

a T205 McElveen...I had that card for several years until high school...don't know if I traded it or just lost it. In fact, I don't know where it came from either...it just appeared in my collection...an odd fish in a sea of late-1970's and early 1980's cards. Flash forward many years and I finally replaced it in my collection with the one below...



Because of this card, I am now working on a modest collection of T205s...

[39special]

1958 Topps Carl Furillo.I bought it at a local card shop in 1979 for $.75.
I grew up in the same area as Carl.My dad knew him so a few weeks after
I got it my dad took me to his house,and he signed it for me.I still have the card.I'm gonna be buried with it.

[Blunder19]

If reading this thread doesnt make you want to go out and buy some cards..

I dont know what will...

a surprising number of people still have their first card... always nice to see people with the same passion about collecting that i have.. now the next thread will be how long did it take before your wife was ok with your obsession....

[David W]

Purchased at a junk barn in rural Georgia on our way to a family vacation over Christmas about 1977. The old man running the barn had a cigar box full of them, 2 for $5. He also had box after box of Topps and Fleer Baseball greats. I was only 11 or 12, conned my folks out of $10 and bought these and the 1968 team set of the Cardinals.... Could have had Ryan or Bench rookies for a dime!!!!

2 years later we went to Florida again, I saved for 2 years to buy the old man out, and when we got there the barn was closed, we asked at the house, and his son said he died a few months prior and he auctioned everything off......

[mrvster]

got back into pre-war when Johnny D talked me into buying my first t206 bres batting in g cond for $20.00 about 14 years ago....YOU BASTARD~