What is the first Baseball Card or Set you Remember?

[pokerplyr80]

89 donruss and upper deck. Although at 2 or 3 bucks a pack the upper deck were very expensive for a young kid. I never did pull a Griffey out of one.

[RCMcKenzie]

1978 was the year I bought the whole set pack by pack at the Stop n Go. I had 1972's and up and those were my good cards.

[Harliduck]

My first ever pack and first ever card was a 1979 Topps Reggie Jackson. My little brothers first card was a Rick Honeycutt, and I was jealous as he was a Mariner (from Seattle). After our first initial packs we were inundated with 78 Topps wax as the local store had a bunch left over. That summer I put together both the 78's and 79 sets, pack after pack. Good memories...I was 9...

[texmrsport]

1971 Topps. I was 9 years old and remember seeing a cello box pack with a Reggie Jackson peeking out on the front. I was a Giants fan but loved the green and gold on the A's. That was my first pack I opened. Still one of my favorite cards of all time along with the fearsome looking Willie McCovey from the same set.

[Jersey City Giants]

1978 Topps, in packs and the large vinyl sports cases (like 1 1/2 feet high and sports characters on the outside) that came with about 20 loose cards inside one of the slots (does anyone else remember those? Football and baseball?).

[dabigyankeeman]

The oldest cards I remember seeing as a kid is the 1955 Bowmans. I remember it because I thought it was the neatest thing, little color tv's, a real novelty back then!!!

[trdcrdkid]

I got very into collecting Wacky Packages when they came out in 1973, when I was seven years old. I was not yet a baseball fan, but I was aware of 1974 Topps baseball cards, which my friend Mark Alexander got a complete set of for his birthday. I became a baseball fan in 1975 and collected the MVP subset from that year’s Topps set, because I liked the old cards pictured on them, and I was becoming obsessed with baseball history. In 1976 I began collecting in earnest, including older cards, and in 1977 I collected the full Topps set for the first time.

[Rich Falvo]

Originally Posted by Jersey City Giants

1978 Topps, in packs and the large vinyl sports cases (like 1 1/2 feet high and sports characters on the outside) that came with about 20 loose cards inside one of the slots (does anyone else remember those? Football and baseball?).

I definitely had the baseball one. I used one slot for each team. Loved those cases.

[shagrotn77]

1979 Topps/Burger King Yankees.