First Pack of Cards

[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..

[Stonepony]

1970 Topps baseball from the TG&Y

[talkinbaseball]

I remember buying 67 topps baseball at a store in Old Lyme, CT at Sound View beach. I was 9 years old, and like Leon said, I can't believe I'm turning 65 this week.
Thanks,
John

[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.

[mrreality68]

enjoying this post.

1. Shows many of our ages
2. Fun sharing some of the memories
3. Interesting view many have and share in this post

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

enjoying this post.

1. Shows many of our ages
2. Fun sharing some of the memories
3. Interesting view many have and share in this post

I love it because it makes me feel so young!

[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....

[Bliggity]

For me it was 1988. I was seven years old and my mother had just signed me up for my first season of parks & rec little league. For my birthday she got me a Dave Righetti glove and a pack of 1988 Donruss from the corner Exxon station near our house. I pulled a Mattingly card, can't remember which one, but I think it was the all star card. We lived two states away from the closest MLB team and I didn't know anything about anything, but my grandmother told me that he was the best player on the Yankees. So of course I started collecting him and he became my favorite player. I bought a lot of $0.35 packs from that Exxon over the next couple years. I just got rid of my entire childhood collection earlier this year, except for the 100 or so Mattingly cards, still in the same little box that I always kept them in.