Fun time....Show-n-Tell us of experiences pulling cards from wax-packs in your youth

[rjackson44]

I remember going to the local candy store .buying 1971 topps packs lots of them.then the supers,ahh the gum ..goiing to the schoolyard and flipping them. Man how many Clemente's did i have..The candy store is a condo now sad

[RCMcKenzie]

I know I pulled 10 or 11 Eddie Murray rookies. I traded them all to a classmate for a 1962 Mays around 1980. I pulled a Smith rookie or 2 in 1979 and still have them in a 2500 count box. I guess I need to go looking as an Ozzie Smith rookie sold for $222,000 plus tax the other day. I'll think on it some more and check back this weekend.

[vthobby]

Incredible Ted!

My 1st experience was asking my mom for $1.05 for something at "school" and then buying 7 (15c) 1976 Topps Baseball Packs. Got a Rooster Rick Burleson as my first card ever! Instant Sox fan! Sorry Mom for lying about the $1.05!

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[TheBig6]

On the way to school in 1959 I swung by the neighborhood Utotem on my bike and bought a pack of 59 Topps and slid the unopened pack in my shirt pocket to open later. Bill Henry the relief pitcher for the Cubs at the time lived in my neighborhood and his son was on my little league team. I wanted a Bill Henry card but it had been elusive for me. Some time during the school day while I was sitting on the can I opened the pack and wallah there he was.

[itjclarke]

I had some fun earlier tonight, pulling my late childhood binders out of the box they'd been for about 15 years, while sitting in a storage unit. Most of these were pulled from wax (or plastic) with exception of the Topps Traded rookies.

My earliest wax packs were the 1980 Topps my dad would occasionally get me from the lunch truck at his work. Still have that early early childhood collection stashed away... most all with "Ian" written on the backs.

[leftygrove10]

I was given my first pack of baseball cards in 1975. I remember that. It was at my friend's birthday party. Her dad gave me the pack. I loved those cards and looked at them often. I think I still have them somewhere.

I started really buying packs of cards in 1978 when I was 7 seven years old. I really loved the look of the 1978 Topps cards (and still do today). I remember buying another pack in early 1979. I guess I hadn't learned at that point when the change over in packs went from one year to the next, but I realized that the cards in the pack in 1979 weren't the same great looking cards that I got the year before. I remember being sad about that.

My most memorable pull from a pack was a 1980 Topps Willie Stargell. It was one of the last cards that I needed from that set. As a Pirates fan, I was super excited. I opened the pack in a dark car after just buying it. It was really hard to tell in the dark, but I was pretty sure it was Willie Stargell. I was so excited. I will never forget that feeling!

[Jobu]

The happiest part of this story is that your stall wasn't out of TP and you still have the cards!!

Originally Posted by TheBig6

On the way to school in 1959 I swung by the neighborhood Utotem on my bike and bought a pack of 59 Topps and slid the unopened pack in my shirt pocket to open later. Bill Henry the relief pitcher for the Cubs at the time lived in my neighborhood and his son was on my little league team. I wanted a Bill Henry card but it had been elusive for me. Some time during the school day while I was sitting on the can I opened the pack and wallah there he was.

[nat]

Leave it to Ted to pull a Honus Wagner in his first pack of cards.

My first pack was 1984 Topps. My parents probably bought it just to shut me up in the grocery store. Little did they know what they started. The only card that I still have from that pack is a Dave Dravecky. No scan available - it's somewhere in my parents' attic, hundreds of miles away.

Years later, c. 1991, I would buy 1981 Donruss cards from the LCS (I think they were $2.50 a pack). Usually threw out the ten year old gum, but one day my brother wanted to try it and he cut his tongue. I did pull the Rickey Henderson though.

[Collectorsince62]

1962 Topps - 6th series. I remember it like it was yesterday. I bought a few 5 cent packs and have been addicted ever since. I also have vivid memories of going to the A&P grocery with my Mom. While she shopped, I sat on the floor in front of the Jello boxes looking through every box for Cardinals.

[Chicosbailbonds]

Originally Posted by rjackson44

I remember going to the local candy store .buying 1971 topps packs lots of them.then the supers,ahh the gum ..goiing to the schoolyard and flipping them. Man how many Clemente's did i have..The candy store is a condo now sad

We never had the Supers here, but I do recall high number rack packs. Some of the header cards were an actual card. It's amazing how many cards from that era were badly cut when watching youtube videos.

[Republicaninmass]

I ended up buying two of the 1947-66 exhibit cello packs from a sealed box in 1993. There was one with Mantle on top!

I ripped both packs and got Mantle, May's, and Musial. I was ecstatic as a 15 year old pulling a mantle rookie (photo)

[JollyElm]

The strangest pack opening I ever experienced was walking away from the drugstore in 1980 and finding every single card in it was Dave Winfield. Literally a pack full of Winfields, with nothing else but a stick of gum. Too bad they weren't Rickey Hendersons. Oh well. I'm sure I've picked up more over the years, but here's some pages from my old album that still houses them...

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[theuclakid]

1960 Easter Sunday, Dad shocked me by giving me an unopened wax box of 1960 Topps...opened the whole box...Mantle series, remember getting one Mantle at least....dont recall what else...and no, I don't have the Mantle any longer, but I kept it until the early 80's as I recall...something like receiving that wax box as an 8 year old card collector you dont forget

Bruce Perry

[rats60]

Originally Posted by theuclakid

1960 Easter Sunday, Dad shocked me by giving me an unopened wax box of 1960 Topps...opened the whole box...Mantle series, remember getting one Mantle at least....dont recall what else...and no, I don't have the Mantle any longer, but I kept it until the early 80's as I recall...something like receiving that wax box as an 8 year old card collector you dont forget

Bruce Perry

That was a good one. Clemente, Koufax, Aaron, McCovey RC. Though you probably didn't realize how good at the time.

[theuclakid]

I watched two nationals dealers open a 1960 cello box from the same series in the early 90's..most cards were way off center as I recall

Bruce Perry

[egri]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

The strangest pack opening I ever experienced was walking away from the drugstore in 1980 and finding every single card in it was Dave Winfield. Literally a pack full of Winfields, with nothing else but a stick of gum. Too bad they weren't Rickey Hendersons. Oh well. I'm sure I've picked up more over the years, but here's some pages from my old album that still houses them...

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There were probably a bunch of Padres fans scratching their heads and wondering why they can't find a Dave Winfield anywhere.