Collection Reflection

[obcbobd]

First Pack of Cards: 1967 Topps Red Sox Stickers
First Set Completed by Hand: 1973 Topps, last card Jim Kaat
First T206: Ed Abbaticchio - Pittsburgh Pirates
First Card To Pay >$100 For: 33 Goudey Ruth
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: not yet
Most Memorable Trade: Traded a boxfull of 73/74 dups for a 52 Topps Mays

[cjedmonton]

First Pack of Cards: 1978 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1983 Topps
First T206: Rube Marquard - Sweet Caporal
First Card To Pay >$100 For: 2001 Donruss Elite Albert Pujols
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: 2008 Topps Chrome Clayton Kershaw PSA 10
Most Memorable Trade: 1975 Topps Pete Rose/Steve Garvey/Johnny Bench for 1970 Nolan Ryan (circa 1980)

[ullmandds]

First Pack of Cards: 1977 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1977 Topps
First T206: white cap matty
First Card To Pay >$100 For: red hindu crandall
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: not sure...some rareish type card of a common player likely???
Most Memorable Trade: 67 brooks robinson, 68 tom seaver for a 77 pinella burger king

[skelly423]

First pack: 1991 Donruss
First set completed by hand: 1950 Bowman
First T206: Nap Rucker portrait
First card to pay >$100: 1985 OPC Mario Lemieux RC
First card to pay >$1000: T206 Cobb green portrait
Most memorable trade: with JStottlemire 1941 Play Ball DiMaggio for T206 Cy Young Polar Bear back

[jingram058]

First pack of cards: 1967 Topps (6 packs, 5 cents each, Safeway supermarket, Dallas, TX)

First set completed by hand: 1967 Topps, plus many duplicates, but my mom gave my cards away when I moved out of the house and (stupidly) didn't care about things like baseball cards anymore

First t206: Addie Joss, Ed Walsh and Nap Lajoie, Coral Square Mall card show, Coral Springs, FL (1993?)

First card to pay $100 for: 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #144, Chanute AFB, IL, 1988 (bought a Ruth signed ball for $500, and Ruth card and Gehrig card for another $300 (?), all authenticated by Harvey Brandwein), used re-enlistment bonus money, also bought new 1988 Ford Mustang with cash at Rantoul Ford)

First card to pay $1000 for: Have not done that, and likely won't

Most memorable trade: Jay Weaver, September 2020 at the height of Covid, I traded duplicate 1959, 1960 and 1961 Topps cards (including Mantle, Maris, Mays, etc.) for 1953 Bowman color (21, including Mantle, Reese, etc.) and 1952 Topps (9, including Mays, Dickey, etc.), which started my 1953 Bowman color complete set. My real most memorable trade wasn't a trade, it was a gift. An older neighborhood pal (imagine a guy 5 or 6 years older, who was a role model for us younger fellows, who pitch for both sides in our games, and also QB) was going away to prep school and showed up at our house one Saturday morning with a box of mainly 1962 Topps and many older, Hardy Boys tan covered books, comic books and Boy Scout stuff. Dolph Belton is a college professor today.

[Snapolit1]

I don’t know how you guys can remember the first pack of baseball cards you ever bought. I can’t remember what I ordered for dinner last Friday.

[rjackson44]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I don’t know how you guys can remember the first pack of baseball cards you ever bought. I can’t remember what I ordered for dinner last Friday.

Hi steve lol 66 orr last big purchase

[brob28]

First Pack of Cards: 1974 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1956 Topps
First T206: Ty Cobb - Red Portrait
First Card To Pay >$100 For: either 1956 Mantle or Red Cobby, can't remember which was first.
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: T206 Nap Lajoie (w/bat) EPDG SCG 60
Most Memorable Trade: Nothing really sticks out: as a kid I traded a '77 Brett for a '75 Aaron which at the time seemed like the steal of the century.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I don’t know how you guys can remember the first pack of baseball cards you ever bought. I can’t remember what I ordered for dinner last Friday.

I remember getting those packs of cards like it was yesterday. Mark Terry, Chuck White and Edwin Jaffe were my closest pals. They were buying and collecting cards starting in 1966, third grade in school. My sister Linda became a "stewardess" for Delta Air Lines and got herself based or assigned to Dallas. My dad and I made a field trip down there in 1967 to see how she was doing. One day she and I went to Safeway, and lo and behold, there at the checkouts, Topps cards. I remember she let me get 6 packs. One of those cards I vividly remember, Jim Barbieri of the Dodgers, swinging a bat with the camera seemingly mounted on the end of the bat! That same trip I saw the outside of the Cotton Bowl, and the inside of 6 Flags Over Texas. Those 6 initial packs of cards lead to a complete set, and many, many duplicates of most, 1967 Topps. Also 1968, 1969, and 1970. My folks let me get one of those plastic (mine was green) two door lockers with shelves for team sets in each league. That's where my 1967 complete set went. All the others went into many shoe boxes.

[commishbob]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I don’t know how you guys can remember the first pack of baseball cards you ever bought. I can’t remember what I ordered for dinner last Friday.

I remember getting my first packs in my Easter basket in 1959. I'd first seen cards the year before, some 58 Topps owned by a kid down the block and I was hooked. I remember getting an Albie Pearson in one of those Easter packs. I got packs for every holiday and birthday after that for quite a few years.

[BuzzD]

first pack: 1955 Bowman
first set completed: 1978 Topps
first T206: Keeler portrait
first card > $100: W551 Ruth
first card >$1000: W600 Chesbro

[Harford20]

First Pack of Cards: 1975 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1987 Topps (nearly finished the 1981 Fleer set from packs in 1981, but actually didn't finish it until 1989)
First T206: Nap Lajoie, Throwing. Still have it. PSA5
First Card To Pay >$100 For: T206 Cy Young Portrait. Paid $150 at a show in Silver Spring in 1991. Still have that card too, PSA2
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: 1954 Wilson Franks Ted Williams

Dave

[clydepepper]

[QUOTE=Snapolit1;2167575]I don’t know how you guys can remember the first pack of baseball cards you ever bought. I can’t remember what I ordered for dinner last Friday.[/QUOTE]



Me too...although, I do remember that my first pack was 1964 Topps

...and we ate a lot of POST Cereals back then, too.




Most memorable deal: purchased a binder of 268 T206 cards and several other early issues for $1,500 sometime between 1987 and 1989.

resold most of them for around 4K. Kept one Cobb and several commons...since resold as well.




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