What was the first baseball card you ever purchased?

bnorth · #1 03-19-2014, 08:08 AM

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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 · #2 03-19-2014, 10:33 PM

...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 · #3 03-20-2014, 10:52 AM

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

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