The Card That Got You Hooked

[tulsaboy]

Sure! I still have the first cards from the first pack I opened, which was 1986 Topps. There was a Wade Boggs and an Eckersley in there. But the card that hooked me was the George Brett base card. When I got that one, I was in love. It's still safely in an 800 count box along with the rest of the 1986 set that I pieced together from packs with my dad. That will be the last box of cards that goes if I ever have to sell everything.
kevin

[ullmandds]

From my early collecting days...I recall desiring the 1975 topps mvp cards...the 1976 cards depicting all time greats...but I think the 1977 Burger King Pinella stands out as being a card I always coveted due to it's limited print run. I didn't acquire one until my 30's!

[skil55voy]

For me it's the 1962 Post Cereal Willie Mays. My favorite player on the back of a cereal box while pushing the shopping cart for my mom in the Food Fair. I saw the box, got excited and she bought the cereal. Still have my original card.

[drcy]

My first Pre-War card was 1933 Goudey from the Frisch catalog. They'd give you a random common and it was Jack Quinn.

My first T206 was Harry Pattee bought my dad at a Wisconsin card shop.

Though no specific card got me hooked. I just started collecting them when I was little, and bought Topps packs from a local grocery store.

[pokerplyr80]

I started collecting as a kid in 1989 so obviously the UD Griffey was the hot card at the time. Packs were 2 or 3 bucks each at the time. Never did pull one, but traded for one at some point later.

My first vintage card was a 58 Mantle/Aaron. I thought it was so cool that it had both players on it, and couldn't figure out why it was cheaper than a similar card with only one of them.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by tulsaboy

Sure! I still have the first cards from the first pack I opened, which was 1986 Topps. There was a Wade Boggs and an Eckersley in there. But the card that hooked me was the George Brett base card. When I got that one, I was in love. It's still safely in an 800 count box along with the rest of the 1986 set that I pieced together from packs with my dad. That will be the last box of cards that goes if I ever have to sell everything.
kevin

I also started with '86 Topps, age 9. The cards I still have that I know are originals I pulled from packs in '86, I can tell because some of them have thumbtack holes through them.

[dio]

First Card I owned got me hooked
1987 topps jose canseco, grew up in bay area when i was a kid, he and Will Clark are my favorite player

First Card i don't owned as a kid but got me hooked
1986 Donruss Jose Canseco, my dream card when i was a kid

First vintage card i bought when i get back into this hobby
1954 topps hank aaron SGC 7 for $1200

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

Pulled this rookie card (and some other Royals) out of a penny box in a Florida drug store while on a Disney vacation in the summer of 1985. They were the first cards I ever owned.

Later that fall I watched as he went on to win World Series MVP for my home town team.

In love with cards ever since.

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[jbsports33]

1980 Topps Rickey Henderson, pulled at a flea market from a sealed pack

The guy that sold it to me opened a card shop and I work for him on the weekends - I got paid in packs!

Pre-war was a T201 Double Fold Tris Speaker purchased in Boston, soon after I purchased the Barry Halper Auction books - read and completed it during the plane ride on my Honeymoon

Jimmy

[gonzo]

The first cards I saw were on the boxes of Hostess snacks in the late 70s. Then packs of Topps.

In about 1980, I got one of the Dover reprint books, and I loved the T205s and T202s and Goudeys. I didn’t start collecting vintage for some time after that, but it was those reprints that hooked me on the old stuff.

[smellthegum]

1974 Topps Hank Aaron #1 All-Time Home Run King. Pulled it from a pack in ‘74 about a month after he had set the record. Later, about 1981, I got hooked on vintage when I bought a 1952 Topps Tommy Glaviano at a flea market; the first non-current card I’d ever bought (or even seen for sale).

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by jbsports33

1980 Topps Rickey Henderson, pulled at a flea market from a sealed pack

The guy that sold it to me opened a card shop and I work for him on the weekends - I got paid in packs!

Pre-war was a T201 Double Fold Tris Speaker purchased in Boston, soon after I purchased the Barry Halper Auction books - read and completed it during the plane ride on my Honeymoon

Jimmy

I would have signed up for that job in a heartbeat.

[JeremyW]

My grandpa bought season tickets for the TB Buccs in 77-78. After that I started collecting Tampa Bay football cards. I caught the baseball bug in '83/'84 when Strawberry & Gooden kicked in.