What is the first Baseball Card or Set you Remember?

[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!

[Cozumeleno]

The first cards I ever got were from a 1986 Topps rack pack when I was eight.

[rjackson44]

1971 topps at the corner store ,,had boxes full of them ,,oh to go back in time...

[tedzan]

Shown here are my very first BB cards. I was 8 years old in 1947 when I started collecting them. My sister and I pulled many of these cards from
BOND BREAD packages. And, my neighborhood buddies and I traded cards till most of us were certain we had completed this 48-card set.

Here are 6 of my original cards. I was very fortunate that my folks saved my Sportscards and my Lionel trains while I was away in the Air Force.



The true ROOKIE cards of these guys...…





Original 1947 wrapper





TED Z

T206 Reference
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