First Pack of Cards

[bobbyw8469]

I remember opening a pack of 1981 Topps and being excited because it had a Fernando Valenzuela rookie card!!! I also remember opening a ton of Wacky Packages cards. And Planet of the Apes.

[sb1]

1968 Topps Football....Bill Glass seems to stick out.

Next year 1969 Topps Baseball 1st Series can vividly remember that every other pack seemed to have an Al McBean card. As a 10 year old, had no idea who this guy with no cap on was....but I had a lot of his cards, as the packs were still a nickel and a dollar every saturday bought a lot of cards.

[Harliduck]

1979 Topps...my mom brought home a pack for my brother and I. My first card was Reggie Jackson...who promptly became my favorite player at the time. I was disappointed to not get any Mariners cards...and jealous my brother got a Rick Honeycutt! Still have my childhood 79 set.

Much like Hxcmilkshake...a while later my mom came home with some 78 packs she found at a slower little store...MIND BLOWN as well!

[ChiefBeef]

1964 Topps. Seems I remember a Kaline early on. Didn't get too many. Store sold out and allowance was slim. But, '65 was a different story and is still the childhood set to remember. Pinned or taped at least 6 Mantles on the walls and back of the door. Ugh!

[Leon]

Where's Teddy Z.? I think he pulled some N172s!

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[Mark]

Found a few of the first ones from the cello pack that my dad bought for me. The first cards I collected were cut from the back of Post cereal boxes.

[commishbob]

I discovered cards in 1958 through a friend who lived in my Long Island neighborhood. I was immediately transfixed by them.

In my Easter basket the next spring I got packs of 1959 Topps and for some reason I recall getting Albie Pearson in those packs.

[jingram058]

Was early summer of 1967 while visiting my sister who was living in Dallas, Texas at the time. I was allowed to buy several Topps wax packs at the Safeway near the Four Seasons apartments where she was living at that time. They would have looked like this, I imagine:

[rand1com]

I was 8 years old and the first pack was 1964 Topps from a local 1960's convenience store named Ellison Grocery in Kings Mountain, NC.

My dad who was a huge baseball fan would buy me boxes when they came in. Cost was a nickel a pack or $1.20 for a 24 pack box. Seemed expensive then. Of course gas was as low as $.179/gal. Five cards per pack + 1 coin as well as I remember + that wonderful piece of bubble gum.

Certainly don't remember which cards came from first pack but I was ticked that I kept getting Mickey Mantles instead of Willie Mays. Had no idea that the boxes I kept opening were first series and Mays was not in it.

[frankbmd]

56 Topps

No idea what cards, but I ended up buying probably a couple dozen nickel packs in ‘56 and never got a Mantle.

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Leon

Where's Teddy Z.? I think he pulled some N172s!

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Hey Leon
You are off a year, I pulled this card out an 1888 OLD JUDGE pack .......... my favorite set in my collection.



SERIOUSLY speaking............I pulled my first BB cards from the BOND BREAD packages in the Summer of 1947.



1947 Homogenized BOND BREAD wrapper





Here are Yogi Berra, Stan Musial, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Ralph Kiner, Bobby Thomson (any of which were my 1st BB cards). These are their true "ROOKIE" cards.





TED Z

T206 Reference
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[jingram058]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Hey Leon
You are off a year, I pulled this card out an 1888 OLD JUDGE pack .......... my favorite set in my collection.



SERIOUSLY speaking............I pulled my first BB cards from the BOND BREAD packages in the Summer of 1947.



1947 Homogenized BOND BREAD wrapper





Here are Yogi Berra, Stan Musial, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Ralph Kiner, Bobby Thomson (any of which were my 1st BB cards). These are their true "ROOKIE" cards.





TED Z

T206 Reference
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Absolutely awesome!

[guy3050]

1971-72 O-Pee-Chee hockey

[Chuck9788]

Originally Posted by ChiefBeef

Pinned or taped at least 6 (1965) Mantles on the walls and back of the door. Ugh!