Show Your Oldest Card....

[Zone91]

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Great story and great great Mantle rookie card!!!

[Eric72]

This is from the card shop I frequented as a kid in the early '80s, from when I was about 11 years old through maybe 15 or 16. Somehow, it managed to linger around in my possession for decades, tucked away with grade school report cards, etc.

A few years back, shortly before getting married, I revisited those things and got rid of the unimportant (read, from ex-girlfriends) souvenirs of my younger days. This was benign, though, and survived the purge.



Probably not what the OP was expecting; however, I have sold off my collection and rebuilt it from scratch many times. As such, this is the "card" I have owned the longest.

And it definitely brings me back. While writing this post, I remembered seeing a news article hanging in the window of this card shop during the first year or so I went there. It was about a '52 Mantle selling for (at least, I think...after all, childhood memories can be a bit fuzzy) $3,000 at a recent Christie's auction. Wow...three grand for a baseball card?!?

What a great hobby...and a great thread, in my opinion. Thanks for posting this, bcookie.

Best Regards,

Eric

[AMBST95]

Now to make you feel old, this is the card I've had in my collection the longest. I don't remember how i got it, but I clearly remember it being in my toybox with my He-Man and WWF action figures as a little kid.



I was six when it was released so I'm guessing I was good and got a pack of cards as a kid. I was a bigger fan of Garbage Pail Kids and Panini's baseball sticker books. I didn't really start collecting baseball cards until 1990 Topps.

[Sean]

I pulled this one out of a pack in 1965. Even though I was a Cub fan living in Chicago I wasn't a big fan of Ernie. I always wanted to open a pack and find Mays, Mantle or Koufax, so this card didn't mean that much to me back then.

When we moved to Phoenix four years later my mom threw away all my cards, and since I had "grown up" I didn't care. This card was spared because it had been stuck in a book, where my brother found it twenty years later. He sent it to me, and I have kept it as a reminder of my childhood ever since.

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