What was the first baseball card you ever purchased?

[Bpm0014]

Neat story Paul. I was the one who won it. I'll take good care of it!

[E93]

In 1979 when I was in junior high and first discovered card shows and old cards I bought a 1960 Yogi Berra. Later that year I traded half my collection for a T206 Cobb/red.
JimB

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by Bpm0014

Neat story Paul. I was the one who won it. I'll take good care of it!

Excellent!!

[ejharrington]

1972 Topps Dave Kingman rookie card; $3.25 at Card Collectors Closet in Springfield, MA in 1984. At the time, it was a fairly sizable investment when you could buy about 10 packs of cards for that amount. I still own the card and all of my Kingman cards from the 70's-80's.

[tedzan]

Spring/Summer of 1947

My folks preferred BOND BREAD....so, my sister and I had fun carefully pulling out of the bread loaf packages these neat B/W BB cards. I still have them.

We were just 7 and 8 years old, respectively....and, I still recall how excited she and I would get, finding a Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams,
Stan Musial, or Phil Rizzuto (our nearby neighbor in Hillside, NJ).

My Father and my Uncle Chris owned restaurants, so we convinced them to by Bond Bread in order for us have a larger source of these BB cards (plus,
the four Boxers in the set).

Anyone of these cards were my very first Sportscard......











TED Z

[Theoldprofessor]

The first card I ever saw was a '48 Leaf Ruth. A kid down the block had bought a pack and opened them. Nobody wanted it because he wasn't a current player. As I recall, it went in the trash with the gum and the wrapper.


The first I ever bought was a T206 Schaefer

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[Theoldprofessor]

Never mind!

[pcoz]

Daryl that's great, lol!!!!!

[veleno45]

My first single card purchased was the 81 Tim Raines rookie. My first pre-war purchase was a "lot" of about 15 T206's from eBay. That was my first hit of pre-war crack. I still can't get off the stuff.