What was the first baseball card you ever purchased?

[clydepepper]

T206 Evers

[Orioles1954]

My story is kind of funny. It was 1986 and I was 10 years old. My father and I had visited the shopping mall where my brother was working as a teenage clerk at a computer store. When we arrived at the store, we walked into a situation where the store manager was berating my brother for some reason. My dad was very upset and gave me $10....told me to go away for 10 minutes and buy something. (later I realized it was so he could give the store manager a piece of his mind). I left the store and wandered through an antique show going on in the mall at the same time. I came upon a fellow selling these pictures of old ball players. I gave him a $10 bill and asked him to pick one out for me. The nice old gentleman gave me a worn, but presentable 1909-11 T206 White Borders Red Ames (Portrait). I've been hooked ever since.

[jbsports33]

Connie Mack OJ


Jimmy

[RTK]

I don't consider myself a card collector in the way most folks here are. I buy few cards. My first significant card was a '57 Ted Williams. The first cards I bought that didn't come from a pack back when I was a kid were some common early 60's cards of Cubs players.

[aquarius31]

1948 Play Ball Pete Reiser that I purchased at a mall in 1985. Still one of my favorites.

[arc2q]

I remember buying two T206s at the local card shop in 1987 for $4 each. I thought it was so amazing to have these relics that were so old, but my friends seems perplexed I would spend that money on old, creased cards instead of the latest Jose Canseco card. Even then vintage cards held a special mystique to me. I still have the Barbeau and Nichols.

I recall the Holy Grail card among my friends at the time (late 80s) was the 1977 Dale Murphy rookie card. It seemed unobtainable but I had a friend whose mother gave him $75 for one. I was shocked. 25 years later I finally bought one on eBay for about $2 or so. I had a tremendous feeling of satisfaction when it came in the mail. I finally got it!