Show Your Oldest Card....

[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