What card are you thankful for? (See what I did there?)

[JollyElm]

I'm just loving the Hart to Hart reference!!!!!!!

[pawpawdiv9]

i have yet to have it. As a home town GA boy, i always dreamt about Hammerin Hank Aaron and followed the Braves in the late 80's/early 90s, thats when i picked up card collecting.
At xmas, my Ma got a Sears baseball card collection for me and my brother to share.
It had all the greats. I think they are called immortals by TCMA or something. I still have it stored away in the closet in those 9-pocket binder pages.
Thats when we started collecting all sorts of cards and stored them in those long cardboard boxes. However we stopped when we made it to HighSchool.
Now that we have jobs and are able to afford some of the cards we always wanted to have...however i never got to the Hank Aaron RC yet, or yet find one centered for my needs.

[Exhibitman]

I was 9 the year he broke the record. Hank Aaron was THE MAN as far as I was concerned and this card and the subsequent Hank Aaron Special cards from the set were the first group of cards I can recall actively chasing.

Pulled this one out of a pack in 1976 in New York City. Slabbed it years later, obviously:



When I was 12 after we'd just moved from NYC to LA, my parents took our family to some friends' house. They had grown kids so I had nothing to do but when I mentioned that I collected cards, the mom said that they had a big box of them in the attic and I could take what I wanted. I spent the rest of the day gathering 1950s-1960s HOFers from the box, baseball and football. At the end when we were ready to go they just gave me the box. It was about 2' x 2' and mostly filled with cards randomly thrown in. I dumped the whole lot onto the floor of my room that evening and started sorting. When I reached the bottom of the pile I found one of these, which I later upgraded. Man, was I excited. Still a favorite card:



This has always been my favorite Clemente card, no reason, I just like it:



I realize I am posting a prewar card but I do love the colors on it, even more than the T206:

[JollyElm]

Adam, are you from New York? Because your Aaron cards reminded me that when I was young, you were either a Mets fan or a Yankees fan and either a Willie Mays fan or a Hank Aaron fan. Never both.

And that Clemente is awesome! Coupled with his 'in action' shot, that's the best pair of cards of a single player in a single set ever!!

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Adam, are you from New York? Because your Aaron cards reminded me that when I was young, you were either a Mets fan or a Yankees fan and either a Willie Mays fan or a Hank Aaron fan. Never both.

And that Clemente is awesome! Coupled with his 'in action' shot, that's the best pair of cards of a single player in a single set ever!!

Yep. I was a Yankees fan, hated the Mets. But I was 8 when Mays came back to NY so I was young enough to be happy anyway. They handed out posters at my school celebrating it and I had one on my closet door. Years later I found this pin with the same art:

[Exhibitman]

Also thankful for the 1952 Topps Zernial

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

I'm just loving the Hart to Hart reference!!!!!!!

Yea, the episode was that an associate/friend of the Harts died and left his young son a great, vintage baseball card collection that a relative stole. The Harts won the cards back in a flipping contest. This card was one that was flipped off the wall and when I saw it I was hooked on the 58 All Star cards.

[Jerry G]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

I'm just loving the Hart to Hart reference!!!!!!!

"Jonathon, move your foot!"

[JollyElm]

By the way, my name is Max. I take care of both of them...which ain't easy; 'cause when they met, it was murder!

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

By the way, my name is Max. I take care of both of them...which ain't easy; 'cause when they met, it was murder!

LOL

I watched that particular episode again on the baseball cards and noticed something I did not as a young kid. When they were flipping cards off the wall, Jonathon's wife would hand him a baseball card to flip. If you looked closely, she was handing him 1982 Topps Baseball cards, probably commons. But, when they showed the card against the wall, it was always a vintage superstar such as the Musial I saw.

[CW]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

By the way, my name is Max. I take care of both of them...which ain't easy; 'cause when they met, it was murder!

Originally Posted by Samsdaddy

LOL

I watched that particular episode again on the baseball cards and noticed something I did not as a young kid. When they were flipping cards off the wall, Jonathon's wife would hand him a baseball card to flip. If you looked closely, she was handing him 1982 Topps Baseball cards, probably commons. But, when they showed the card against the wall, it was always a vintage superstar such as the Musial I saw.

Classic! I remember that episode when it first aired. IIRC, they also showed an '82 Fernando Valenzuela (I searched high and low for that card after seeing it on Hart to Hart).

I'm going to have to dig it up on YouTube....

[CW]

The card I'm most thankful for is this one, as it reminds me of my Mom, and can sometimes evoke that feeling of being a kid again...



and a card for which I'm simply thankful it exists, whether I own a copy or not, it's this one. Not much description is needed -- it is simply a card that defines coolness

[71buc]

A couple of years ago I found these boxes of unopened basketball cards for $20 a box. I sold them for many times more than that and purchased the rookie cards of my childhood heroes as well as other baubles I had dreamed of owning. Years of searching and finally pay dirt. I am still very thankful for that find and the cards they netted me.

[MattyC]

Obtained in 86 at a local Brooklyn show, attended by me, my little brother, mom, and nana. I was 10. It just did not get any bigger in 86 than the Mets. I would wind up having tequila shots with Straw 25 years later, and tell him the story of when he told the show's security to screw off and signed my extra 86 Topps card "To Matt," when they wanted me to pay extra for the second signature (he'd signed another card for me just seconds earlier).

[stlcardsfan]

Originally Posted by 71buc

A couple of years ago I found these boxes of unopened basketball cards for $20 a box. I sold them for many times more than that and purchased the rookie cards of my childhood heroes as well as other baubles I had dreamed of owning. Years of searching and finally pay dirt. I am still very thankful for that find and the cards they netted me.

Very cool. What year were the basketball cards?

This is mine