What is the first Baseball Card or Set you Remember?

[Kawika]

George: Those cut-out cards are really cool. Glad you kept 'em. I'm tempted to take a scissors to my '53 Topps set now. I was kid in the 'fifties so saw some of those ballplayers at Yankee Stadium.

I have a clear memory of my first exposure to baseball cards. I was given a handful, maybe 5 or 6 cards, a mix of '54s and '55s. Distinctly remember a '54 Topps Ernie Banks - I was mesmerized on the spot. By 1957 I was hooked.

All the cards, the Superboy comics and my coonskin cap are presently residing in the Pleistocene layer. I bought this card as a tribute to a boyhood icon.

[NiceDocter]

I remember clearly buying 2 Topps hanging Rack Packs with three packets of cards in cellophane (sp?) .... I hand picked them to get the ones with Koufax showing on one and Mantle and Maris on the other! Man if only I hadnt cracked em open...............got em at the Super Giant in the White Oak, Maryland shopping center during our weekly trip to the grocery store as a family.

[sinoth23]

1979 Burger King Yanks. Remember going each Sat with my grandfather and picking up a few of those packs.

[Republicaninmass]

1986 topps. I remember finding some old packs once from 1985 in a store and was amazed they were still unopened

[kmac32]

1969 Topps

[darwinbulldog]

The first baseball card I ever saw was a 1986 Big League Chew Babe Ruth that someone had left in a library book. My first pack was 1986 Donruss, probably just a couple of weeks later.

[swabie2424]

I inherited my older brother’s cards very early. He had lots of 1969-1976’s so those are where my consciousness started. I was born in the early 70’s so 1979 and 1980 is about where I recall actually getting cards from stores. In terms of really ripping tons of product I was squarely in the mid 80’s junk wax era.

My dad had a friend/co-worker whose daughter worked at Topps in NYC. She was so cool and would bring me home free boxes of mid-80’s wax every once and a while. Carrying heavy wax on the train all the way to CT, how insanely amazing she was! To a young kid it was like heaven getting free boxes of cards!