What was the first baseball card you ever purchased?

[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