Best pack,you ever open!No inserts!

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by MacDice

Not vintage but pulling an Upper Deck Griffey Jr in 1989 was pretty exciting for a 15 year old

That was fun in 89...the whole 80's was fun opening all that junk wax.



One of the coolest pack openings for me was in 1991. I was not collecting at the time and was with my wife shopping. Bored I found a box of wax packs at the mall and bought a couple packs. Hated the cards immediately, haha. A couple packs in I pull a 1970 Topps Cito Gaston (semi-high) card. I was SHOCKED. It was super crisp, but severely OC. I then read on the wrapper that they were inserting vintage cards in packs as a promotion. I went home and threw the little stack of cards in a drawer and forgot about them. When I got back into collecting vintage sets I remembered that pull...dug until I found that Cito, and made sure that card was in my 1970 set. That was the year I was born...so to me it is SUPER cool I have a 1970 card in my set I pulled from a pack. Kind of geeky...but I love it, it's my favorite card in that binder.

[bigfanNY]

1969 about this time of year I was in the Pharmacy in my town I had not purchased any cards since the school year had ended back in June but the counter guy told me and my friend that this was the Mantle series so I was all in with my quarter allowance. We both pulled one and my neighbor the Met fan traded me his for a Tommie Agee. And as the miracle of 1969 unfolded every kid in my class said I got the short end of the deal. Tough being a Yankee fan when I was a kid but it built character...lol
J

[almostdone]

Here is a fairly recent story. I bought tons of packs of cards before I ever got into vintage collecting and I'm sure I pulled some great cards but one thing I was never able to do was pull a Griffey rookie from a 89 Upper Deck pack. I am a huge Griffey fan and have always wanted to but for some reason never picked the right pack or even box.

Flash forward to this past summer. Myself and five others, including my 20 year old son, went on a road trip to Cooperstown to see the Hall Of Fame. Being it was Griffey's induction year it made it fitting. I bought a box of 89 Upper Deck from a board member to split up and break while we were up there. Each of us got six packs to open and we ended up making up a game of what we pulled. In the back of my mind I was hoping that I might be lucky enough to pull the Griffey but the odds were against me.

We sat around a table at the hotel after going to the HOF on day one and discussed how to pick the packs. My son says "I think we should go oldest to youngest" trying to give me the honors of first pick. I replied "No. Youngest to oldest" letting him go first. He pulles out a pack opened it up and the third card in pulls the Griffey. He shows it to me then apologizes knowing how much I hoped I could get one. I couldn't be happier.

My son and I are very close and share a lot of interest but he isn't much of a baseball fan and never collected cards. That pack was the very first one he ever opened and he got a Griffey!

I know you can get raw examples for very little but the fact that he is the one that pulled it and then thought of me before him makes me so proud of the man he is becoming.

Besides collecting baseball my other hobby is building display cases. I told him I would design and build a case for him containing memories of our trip including tickets, pins (which he collects), and of course the Griffey. I'm looking forward to making it and giving it to him.

Drew

[Beatles Guy]

The fist pack I ever opened in '79 had a Mike Schmidt. I was more excited about the John Urrea because he was a Cardinal.

During the FF Bill Ripken craze I took a chance on a $2 pack (big money in '89) and pulled one. The dealer offered me $200 on the spot and I should have taken it. Ended up trading it for a friend's entire collection a few years later.

[mikemb]

It might sound silly but I think I was the most excited when I pulled Jimmie Hall out of a first series 1969 Topps pack.

My cousin and I collected baseball cards and we always traded our duplicates with each other. One day, we were trading and he needed a Jimmie Hall. I had one but no duplicate. I thought about it and broke my own rule and traded it to him, a card I only had one of. I thought I'd easily get another one.

As the days went by, got all the cards in the first series except Jimmie Hall. Would go to the corner store, lay my nickel on the counter, take my pack outside, open it up, put gum in mouth, not get Jimmie and threw cards (and wrapper) into garbage can on corner and go back in store.....

As a 12 year old I started to panic. Not only was the second series just about to start but my supply of nickels was going down!

Finally pulled him from a pack. Major relief. All was right in the world again.

Mike

[Leon]

Great story, Mike (and others too). Thanks for sharing...

Originally Posted by mikemb

It might sound silly but I think I was the most excited when I pulled Jimmie Hall out of a first series 1969 Topps pack.

My cousin and I collected baseball cards and we always traded our duplicates with each other. One day, we were trading and he needed a Jimmie Hall. I had one but no duplicate. I thought about it and broke my own rule and traded it to him, a card I only had one of. I thought I'd easily get another one.

As the days went by, got all the cards in the first series except Jimmie Hall. Would go to the corner store, lay my nickel on the counter, take my pack outside, open it up, put gum in mouth, not get Jimmie and threw cards (and wrapper) into garbage can on corner and go back in store.....

As a 12 year old I started to panic. Not only was the second series just about to start but my supply of nickels was going down!

Finally pulled him from a pack. Major relief. All was right in the world again.

Mike

[tedzan]

I know that some of you have seen this before on this forum....but, I think it's worth repeating for those who have not.

In the Fall of 1952, I opened up a 1952 TOPPS Hi# waxpack to find these 5 cards......







After 64 years they remain in my 1952 Topps 525-card (Master) set. Need 30 more mid-Series Gray-backs to complete.



TED Z
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