The Card That Got You Hooked

[tsp06]

Like a couple of others have said, mine was the 1986 Topps set. I don't think any of the particular cards were the key to getting me hooked though. During that summer I was 11 and spent a lot of time with my grandparents. My grandmother was helping me by buying packs and trying to complete the sticker album. On the sticker backs there was an offer to send in 100 or so backs and $10-15 for a complete 1986 set. Grandma wrote out the check and helped me package up the backs. Seems like it took forever but when that complete set arrived I could not believe it. I still have the set and have even sent off and received some of them as TTM autos. The set is in a binder like a prized possession to this day with autographs sprinkled throughout.

[biggies]

'57 Aaron

[UKCardGuy]

Of all things...it was 1978 Topps Bob Watson.

As an 8 yr old given his first baseball cards, I remember the realization the he was the Astros player in the Bad News Bears ("Let the kids play").

[rats60]

I first bought cards in 1965, but it was really 1967 when I started collecting seriously. I had all the cards from the first 6 series, but kept buying hoping for 7th series cards. Instead I kept getting 6th series cards and ended up with multiples of every 6th series card. This was my favorite card being an All Star and World Series hero from my favorite team. I got this autographed at a Willow Grove show.

[GaryPassamonte]

From my first year of collecting cards. Koufax became my favorite player
and the Dodgers became my favorite team. This is not the Koufax card I had as a boy. I would love to find the one I had. I was so mad at Koufax when he retired after the 1966 season, I wrote "ex" in front of the word pitcher on the front of the card making it say "ex pitcher". If anyone has this/my card let me know. I still regret selling my childhood collection of 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969 Topps cards.

[tobychin]

In 1957 my friend Charles and I were eleven years old. Our Moms took us to the big city to make our monthly visit to the Orthodontist. After the Orthodontist visit our Moms shopped and Charles and I went to the Morgan and Lindsey store where we discovered our first baseball cards. The first pack that I bought had my favorite player, Ken Boyer. From that moment until now I have been hooked.

[big-six]

Last card to complete my 1974 Topps set as an 11 year old one pack at a time-

[frohme]

I played ball as a kid, so naturally I collected some, but I didn't really stick with it as there were other attractions for the limited resources. When I got back into cards after school, this one got me hooked on pre-war

From the 1990 Nat'l in the Dallas area.



and this one was one my of first two T207's - from a 1991(?) Festberg auction



Still have them both.