most memorable card you got opening a pack

[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Originally Posted by thetruthisoutthere

This a great thread!!!

The summer of 1965 I pulled a Tom Tresh (my favorite Yankee of all-time) from a Topps pack.

I can still smell the bubble gum.

Great days starting back in the early 1960's being able to buy a pack here and there.

I also remember pulling a Jake Gibbs "Rookie Stars" card.

That's why I started it. It's not about getting the most valuable card it's the memory of the one that meant the most to you in your lifetime and always hoping you get that card opening those packs and especially before all the subsets.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by jakebeckleyoldeagleeye

That's why I started it. It's not about getting the most valuable card it's the memory of the one that meant the most to you in your lifetime and always hoping you get that card opening those packs and especially before all the subsets.

Absolutely!!!

Awesome thread!!!

[Yoda]

My story is quite similar to Ted's. I grew up in the 50's in Schenectady, NY, where my Dad worked for GE which basically supported and made the town viable. Schenectady, for what ever reason, was going to be included in the last series of that new, gobsmacking 1952 Topps baseball card set, which had made our gang joyous for the whole summer, particularly we knew that you-know-who had to be included in it. My brand loyalty to Bowman had faded because these new Topps beauties just stole the show. Word reached us that our local general store was loaded and the dash was on. We marched in and bought as many packs as our modest budgets would allow. Soon wrappers flew, gum ingested and we sat down to the real business: Who got what and were they open for trading?
Myself and another pulled Jackie Robinsons. Not bad. Another guy got an Eddie Mathews. Lucky lad. And, yes, one guy pulled the Mick. We insisted he pass it around to his friends (us) with their greasy dirty, rough little fingers. I shudder to think about it. Great card memories.

[NiceDocter]

I had the same thrill that you did with the Cardinals celebrate card with what I still consider to be one of the coolest Topps cards ever made.... the 1967 #1 "THE CHAMPS" with Hank Bauer with his arms around Brooks and Frank Robinson. That card kind of summed up what I as a kid hoped for for the whole country....we are all going to win it together as a team! Still have that same dream......

[SAllen2556]

In 1976 Mark Fidrych was the talk of the town in Detroit, but he had no card in the '76 set - not even a tiny rookie card. So when the '77 set came out every kid was after the Fidrych card. At one point I think I had about 6 of them and you could have traded it for any card you wanted - but no one did.

That was also the first year we discovered the candy distributor in our city. It was in a very nondescript building that sold boxes of candy to stores like 7-11. You could go in there and buy an entire box of baseball cards. That was the most amazing thing to me. My buddy and I would split the cost and divide the packs up between us - it was way cheaper than buying packs from the store. I also remember my mom getting really mad at me when she saw how much the box cost.