What was the first baseball card you ever purchased?

[Jeffrompa]

Originally Posted by I Only Smoke 4 the Cards

What is flipping?

Here are the basics but we added some other elements such as leaning cards against a wall to try and knock them over to win them .


Rules are simple; from a standing position, the first player takes a card, holds it along his side and then, with a flip of the wrist, lets it drop to the floor. It lands, with the picture facing up (heads) or the stats facing up (tails). The second player then flips and tries to match the card. If they match (both heads or both tails), player #2 wins the cards, if they did not match, the cards goes to player #1. I lost 100s of cards this way .

[ullmandds]

On a slightly different note...the cards I WANTED to buy as a kid...from my early days of collecting...but couldn't afford to were:

67 topps seaver rookie for $7
54 topps aaron rookie for $25

I also remember wanting a pete rose rookie...which I tried to steal from my neighbor...who was older...but he suspected mischief and while searching for contraband under my leg he tore the rose rookie into pieces...at which time he let me keep it!

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Jeffrompa

Here are the basics but we added some other elements such as leaning cards against a wall to try and knock them over to win them .


Rules are simple; from a standing position, the first player takes a card, holds it along his side and then, with a flip of the wrist, lets it drop to the floor. It lands, with the picture facing up (heads) or the stats facing up (tails). The second player then flips and tries to match the card. If they match (both heads or both tails), player #2 wins the cards, if they did not match, the cards goes to player #1. I lost 100s of cards this way .

We used to use the grade school wall as a backstop. We would stand about 15 foot away and flip them at the wall. Closest card to the wall wins. Back then I never collected just bough the occasional pack or 2 to play. We also done this with nickels and dimes.

[drmondobueno]

...no one I knew bought individual cards. We bought packs from the local New Star market and traded marbles, cards and Gila monsters. Of course these trades were subject to our Mom's approval (hah)...the cards were mostly 1961 through 1963 Topps. Must have had a dozen or more '62 Mantles. Loved the Maris card, 61 Home Runs!

The first individual card I remember buying, sometime around 1980, was a '63 Topps Juan Marichal. Cost me $3.25 in a live auction at a card show, the West Covina mall. My first tobacco card was a t206 Jack Bastian. Still have the Bastian.

[bigfanNY]

Very first individual card was an E95 cobb at the New York antiques show in Madison Square Garden 1973 cost $4. First pack was 1968 Topps at the Rainbow Deli in my home town. In 1972 I had a paper route and would often walk to deli on collection day and buy a few packs one of the older kids in the neighborhood saw me and we started talking about cards and he gave me a Box of cards from 1964 thru 1966 and told three of his friends that I collected cards and they did the same. One even bought over his satchel 0f 64 coins. They just wanted someone to enjoy them instead of their Mom's throwing them out. It was nice when my neighborhood was filled with neighbors.
Jonathan

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by Jeffrompa

Here are the basics but we added some other elements such as leaning cards against a wall to try and knock them over to win them .


Rules are simple; from a standing position, the first player takes a card, holds it along his side and then, with a flip of the wrist, lets it drop to the floor. It lands, with the picture facing up (heads) or the stats facing up (tails). The second player then flips and tries to match the card. If they match (both heads or both tails), player #2 wins the cards, if they did not match, the cards goes to player #1. I lost 100s of cards this way .

My card-collecting buddies and I were very competitive. We played the above described games to win each other's cards.

We called another game we played (my favorite) "sail touch." It was played on a large, open floor area. To start the game, the first player (there were 4 of us kids) would sail a card to the open floor area. Each player, in turn, would then sail a card, the object being to land your card such that any part of it covered any part of any other card that was already laying on the floor. Once someone accomplished this, then each remaining player, in turn, had one chance to sail a card to partially cover any card already on the floor. If these remaining players failed to do this, then the first player won all of the cards on the floor. If one or more of the remaining players also accomplished this, then only these accomplishers remained in the game, which continued on as though no one had yet partially covered another card with his card. I liked this game much better than "knock down" (leaning a card against a wall and sailing cards until someone knocked it down) because the cards didn't get dinged up so badly so quickly!

Our card sailing and flipping games ended when some adult taught us kids how to play poker and blackjack. We then gambled our cards, until we got old enough to get newspaper routes or after-school-jobs, which enabled us to gamble our hard-earned nickels, dimes, and quarters instead. Those were good times in the late 1950's!!
Val