What was the card that started it for you?

[JollyElm]

Along those lines, I always think of Tony Perez stretching to reach first base in the Game 2 card...

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[Vintagevault13]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Along those lines, I always think of Tony Perez stretching to reach first base in the Game 2 card...



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Yep. Good thing for the A’s there was no replay. I think he probably beat that throw.


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[ksfarmboy]

I’m guessing it was around 78 or 79. I was around 9-10 and a huge Brooks Robinson fan. The card shop I worked at had a 57 Robinson I fell in love with. The owner saved the card for me until I could come up with the cash. Took me all summer at the shop plus money saved keeping score at the bowling alley for tips during tournaments. Still have the card to this day. I need to get a pic of it.

[robkas68]

10 years old. Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Dad came home with a pack of cards each for my brother and myself. My pack contained a 1978 Topps John Candelaria ERA leader card and I was hooked. You notice this thread is full of rather mundane cards from childhood, not Mantle rookies.

[GasHouseGang]

For me it was the 1973 Clemente. I remember hearing on the news that he had been killed in a plane crash, and I guess it just became a special card in my collection.

[Peter_Spaeth]

As an adult, I started collecting again and was buying all the new stuff (this was early 90s), then I saw a 65T Rose and 61F Russell on Pete Lalos' table at a local show and underwent a cosmic shift.

[robkas68]

Again being a Pirates fan, but growing up in Illinois, getting a Clemente was pretty special for me too. I finally traded a small fortune (by 11 year old standards in 1979) for a 1972 Clemente in action card. I think part of the trade was a 1961 Willie Mays that my uncle gave me. Terrible "objective" trade, but 40 years later, I would do it again.

[baseballfan]

a bunch of 50's cards I bought at a swap shop in Binghamton NY as a kid, cheap. I remember 58s and a 52 paul minner, that was it I was about 11-12 if that. then the Henderson rookie


a good memory indeed

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by robkas68

Again being a Pirates fan, but growing up in Illinois, getting a Clemente was pretty special for me too. I finally traded a small fortune (by 11 year old standards in 1979) for a 1972 Clemente in action card. I think part of the trade was a 1961 Willie Mays that my uncle gave me. Terrible "objective" trade, but 40 years later, I would do it again.

That card always freaks me out with the shadow covering most of his face.

[JLange]

Duane Kuiper and Buddy Bell were the Heroes of my youth! They got me started in a life long love of Baseball Cards

[Volod]

Originally Posted by JLange

Duane Kuiper and Buddy Bell were the Heroes of my youth! They got me started in a life long love of Baseball Cards

Another old featherhead from that era - Arch Manning, a close pal of both of those guys - still doing Tribe broadcasts. Can't even thumb down the pajama unis.