First Pack of Cards

[carlsonjok]

I don't really remember my first packs of baseball cards, but I do have very distinct memories of the 1974-75 hockey stamps that they would give out at Loblaw's grocery stores.



Even though I don't follow hockey anymore, I still have a soft spot for these stamps. I have finished the album three times as an adult and have enough stamps to make a good run at finishing three more if it wasn't for the 20 short prints.

[ocjack]

1958 - still remember the orange Tony Kubek in the pack. Can't remember any of the other cards - but he was a Yankee and that was my team.

[Tao_Moko]

1978 at Vilmure's grocer in Decatur, IL

[RL]

1963 fleer

[Carter08]

A few people have this but also 1987 topps for me. Love that set. But I remember feeling really baller when I opened 89 upper deck and 90 score.

[Pat R]

1974 topps I still have some of them along with some older cards I won flipping.

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[Al C.risafulli]

I'll never forget it. 1977 Topps, my mom bought them for me. She gave me the pack while grocery shopping. I didn't understand what they were. She tried to explain that they had cards of all different players, and you could trade them with your friends until you got all the ones you liked, or the full set.

I had no clue what a "set" was, or anything. But I opened that pack, and inside there was a Rod Carew. To me, 8 years old or whatever, Rod Carew was the greatest player on earth, and that card was BEAUTIFUL, with the camera focused on Carew with the blurry player in the background, and "A.L. All Stars" emblazoned across the bottom of the card. It was fantastic, and it had all his stats on the back!

I was hooked. Baseball cards were all I thought about when I was a kid, 8-10 years old. I'm glad I've gotten over them.

-Al

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by Al C.risafulli

I'll never forget it. 1977 Topps, my mom bought them for me. She gave me the pack while grocery shopping. I didn't understand what they were. She tried to explain that they had cards of all different players, and you could trade them with your friends until you got all the ones you liked, or the full set.

I had no clue what a "set" was, or anything. But I opened that pack, and inside there was a Rod Carew. To me, 8 years old or whatever, Rod Carew was the greatest player on earth, and that card was BEAUTIFUL, with the camera focused on Carew with the blurry player in the background, and "A.L. All Stars" emblazoned across the bottom of the card. It was fantastic, and it had all his stats on the back!

I was hooked. Baseball cards were all I thought about when I was a kid, 8-10 years old. I'm glad I've gotten over them.

-Al

Gotten over the cards...hmmm. If you say so, Al.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Pat R

1974 topps I still have some of them along with some older cards I won flipping.

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Flipping isn’t what it used to be.

Have we evolved or devolved?

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Flipping isn’t what it used to be.

Have we evolved or devolved?

I guess what we usually played is technically called tossing.
http://www.streetplay.com/thegames/baseballcards.shtml

[bmattioli]

I remember 7 packs for a dollar, the kid across the street getting a 1971 full Topps box, digging through the Kelloggs box to see what I got and Hostess cards with yummy Twinkees and other good stuff.. My first pack memory is long gone..

[HercDriver]

Mine was 1974 also, from the Woolworth's in Freeport, IL. I was hooked, and have been ever since. Still one of my favorite sets...

Cheers,
Geno

[donmuth]

1985 Fleer from an Eckerd drug store in Florida while visiting my grand parents. Bought by my dad when I saw them and asked him what they were. Probably around 45 cents a pack or so if I remember right.

[Griffins]

'70 Topps 4th series. Felipe Alou, Carew AS, Phillies Team, Billy Grabarkewitz, John O'Donughue, Tim Cullen. And a scratch off with Tom Seaver on the front.

[Bobbycee]

My first was a pack of 7th series '70 Topps Baseball. My mother handed it to me in the backseat of the family car on a long trip to Maine, to shut me up (& it did..). I stared at the Bud Harrelson card, which featured him signing a program for a fan.

Then next year ('71 Topps Baseball), the stuff really hit the fan. Boy those beautiful black bordered cards with the tremendous actions shots really gripped me, and still do today.

[Exhibitman]

1970 Topps baseball. I bought the pack on a Friday night at an ice cream store in the mall in Mahopac NY. I don't remember who was in it and don't have the cards now, but that was definitely the first. By 1971 I was buying packs with every dime I had. Total addict. My birthday present in 1975 was two full boxes of Topps baseball wax packs. My avatar is me sorting 1975 Topps hockey on the floor of our house in Mahopac. I was ten. Awful/wonderful thing is that when I found the photo in our family albums 45 years later I could still name every card I could see.

[Eggoman]

It was 1969 Topps at Stella's Delicatessen on my 2nd Grade Lunch Break from Catholic School. My older brother introduced me to buying packs.

He was PISSED when I got Curt Flood and I was absolutely STOKED! Sister Viola confiscated my cards as soon as I returned to class. I tried not to sob the rest of the afternoon...

She returned them to me at the end of the day and told me "Never Again in my classroom!"

I can remember EVERY DETAIL of the event....