Show Your Oldest Card....

[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.