Just for fun.... How many still have their first card?

[nolemmings]

This one was not in the first pack I ever opened, but I would bet it was in the first ten:

[bnorth]

The last time I seen my much older cousin was when I was 6-7 yrs old. He gave me all his cards, around 3-400 of them. They ranged from 61-66 and included several types including Topps, Post, Batman, Monster Laughs, and a few others. I still have most of them. I got them around 1975 and they just set in a dresser drawer for 10/11 years till my brother got me into collecting.

EDIT: After seeing Todd's 66 Mantle above I have a sad/funny story. Most of the 66 Topps cards I was left were in NrMnt just pulled from the pack condition. In my early 20's I was dating a girl and her little brother who was in about 7th grade knew I collected baseball cards and asked if I had any Mickey Mantle cards. I said I have an amazing 66 Topps card. He asked if he could take it to school the next day and like a dummy I said yes. When I got the card back it looked worse than the one in Todd's post.

[DHogan]

The nuns in 3rd grade took all the cards that they caught us with in 1967. That could be why I've never seen any retired nuns around. My mother never threw any of my cards out. My father, he would throw my stuff out of the window.

[mrmopar]

I have all of my cards from childhood, but I don't have a "first" card that I can ID. I first bought packs in 1978, so it is one of many well loved 78 Topps baseball cards.

I'll show this because that is what I did to some of my cards then. The photo cropped a little funny, but it is a mini card, thanks to me cutting off part of the border.

[Collectorsince62]

Summer of 1962. I rode my bike to the neighborhood drug store and bought my first pack of cards. Guisti, McLish, Lemon, Gotay, and Horlen. I kept them together in a rubber band made from an old inner tube. The rubber band is gone but those five are still together and they mean as much to me as the most valuable cards in my collection.