What is the first Baseball Card or Set you Remember?

[paul]

1970 Topps, at age 4 1/2. I completed the set at the end of high school.

[Jim65]

1975 Topps

[ejharrington]

1978 Topps

[HRBAKER]

1966

[Peter_Spaeth]

65T and in particular Mays

[angolajones]

1977

[riggs336]

1953 Topps and 1951 Berk Ross, boxes of which were still being sold at the Abilene, TX Woolworths in 1953. Wish I'd bought more but a five cent weekly allowance only stretched so far.

[EGreenwood]

1978 Topps. The Reggie (#200) is still one of my favorites.

Erik Greenwood

[George]

The first cards I collected were 1952 Bowmans, and my favorite player was PeeWee Reese. The following year, when I was 10, I switched from Bowman to Topps. I liked the pictures of the players very much, and I used a pair of scissors to cut out their silhouettes, whch I then taped to the wall. I still have them, although they are no longer on the wall.

[spec]

Nice job of cutting for a 10-year-old! Did you grow you grow up to be a tailor? And how did Rube Walker crack that lineup of superstars on your bedroom wall?

[George]

Rube Walker was a Dodger, and I thought that all Dodgers were great. I also liked Mantle, because he had put on a clinic, along with Hank Bauer and Billy Martin, for the players in my Little League during the previous year, which was 1952. They were absolutely great with us, and I always liked them, even though they beat the Dodgers in the World Series many times.

[hcv123]

Originally Posted by George

The first cards I collected were 1952 Bowmans, and my favorite player was PeeWee Reese. The following year, when I was 10, I switched from Bowman to Topps. I liked the pictures of the players very much, and I used a pair of scissors to cut out their silhouettes, whch I then taped to the wall. I still have them, although they are no longer on the wall.

- while I have to say contemplating the devaluation is painfull - they do look really cool that way!

For me it was 73 topps - I was 7 and would bring pockets full of them to school to flip. Somehow I got a whole bunch of 72's as well which while I have no recollection of buying, flipping, etc. , I do sadly remember trading a whole shoebox full for comic books (got a pittance for them) at a comic book show