Show Your Oldest Card....

[triwak]

Originally Posted by jimivintage

So, since you pulled this from a pack in '68, do you remember how the creases were made? Now THAT would add to the provenance.

Perhaps I should have said "well loved AND well handled!" Cardinal fan here, and Gibby was one of my heroes. 1968 was a decent year for him, I guess! Also for me, since that's when I started collecting. And I still have EVERY card from my childhood, as well as every card I've ever purchased since. I'm not a very good seller!

[deadballfreaK]

Originally Posted by triwak

Perhaps I should have said "well loved AND well handled!" Cardinal fan here, and Gibby was one of my heroes. 1968 was a decent year for him, I guess! Also for me, since that's when I started collecting. And I still have EVERY card from my childhood, as well as every card I've ever purchased since. I'm not a very good seller!

I'm a huge Cardinal fan as well. First game I ever attended was 1966. Gibby beat the Pirates 4-1. About a 5 hitter and Clemente had a couple of those I think. Awesome day. Gibson and Clemente were burned into my memory that day. They seemed like gods!

[mcap100176]

There was a long-running story that my grandmother babysat Sandy Koufax in Brooklyn when he was growing up. The ages work as my grandmother would have been in her mid-teens when Sandy was a kid, but there was nothing that could ever verify it; when I was younger it was just a childhood story (I am 36 now).

I remember being in a card store in the last 80's and my parent's buying me this. It was raw until a few years ago when I got back into the hobby.

[tedzan]

I started collecting cards in 1947 when my parents bought Bond Bread (B-B). My sister and I carefully removed these B & W cards from the bread packages.

Little did I know back then, that I was getting Rookie cards of Jackie Robinson, Yogi Berra, Stan Musial, and more. I still have the 44 BB players (don't know
what happened to the 4 Boxers in this set).






My favorite 1947 B-B card is the Johnny Lindell card....simply because he was my hero in the 1947 World Series....Yankees vs. Dodgers. Johnny batted .500
in 6 games (9 Hits, 5 Walks, and 7 RBI's). Defensively, in LF he made 2 unbelievable diving catches; and, with his strong arm threw out several Dodgers.






Hey guys......I even have an original 1947 Bond Bread loaf wrapper.






TED Z

[CW]

I pulled this card from one of the first few packs I ever opened. It's been in my collection since 1977 (36 years now), and I wrote a short story about this card which appeared on sportscollectorsdaily.com a little while back (my story is the third one, titled Mom Loves The Bird). Not only is this my oldest card, it's my most sentimental card as well.

[EGreenwood]

I started collecting in 1978 and still have some of my well-loved originals. I remember in around 1980 getting my first vintage - 54 Topps Jackie Robinson for $5 fm Wes' Hall of Fame in Paramount, CA. I got my first pre-war in 82 - T206 Stanage and Hinchman for $9 at a shop in Anaheim. Still have the Robinson and Stanage.

Erik

[Cooper1927]

I believe this is my oldest (memory is spotty at best, it could have been a 1960 Spahn). I picked it up from my middle school science teacher (he was my favorite teacher bar none) nigh on 22 or 23 years ago. I thought it was so cool that there was a card that folded!



Funny story about that science teacher. Rumor was that he got in trouble after I was out of middle school for splitting the lip of the principal (no one liked the guy and he wore a mustache that apparently covered the split). Whatever the real story was, he continued teaching after that for some years.

This card was my first purchase (outside of wax packs) at a garage sale in Town at the High School parking lot @ 1971 or 72, finding a Mantle, paying .02 cents, collecting baseball cards priceless