Collection Reflection

[fkm_bky]

First Pack of Cards: 1981 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1982 Topps
First T206: Chance Red Portrait ($28) in about 2002
First card to Pay >$100: E95 Cobb SGC30 - $125 in early 2000’s
First Card to Pay >$1000: T206 Red Cobb (this year)

Bill

[ClementeFanOh]

Hi all- Happy Thanksgiving! Here's the best I can do...

1) First pack- 1976 Topps baseball
2) First set- same
3) First T206- can't remember
4) First card at $100- 1954 Topps Hank Aaron, back in 1981
5) First card at $1000- I should be able to remember. Maybe an E90-1 Cobb?

Trent King

[jefferyepayne]

Baseball focused for this thread. I'm a football guy but collected a lot of baseball as a kid and some a decade ago. Also all pro football players with baseball cards.

First Pack of Cards: 1977 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1978 Topps
First T206: Lefty Leifield Batting (bought in 1979)
First Card To Pay >$100 For: T206 Ty Cobb (bought in 2012)
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: M101 Jim Thorpe (bought in 2013)
Most Memorable Trade: received: 1962 Topps Mickey Mantle; Sent: Twelve doubles I had (trade in 1980)

jeff

[kailes2872]

First Pack of Cards: 1978 Topps (I got Reggie in my first pack)
First Set Completed by Hand: 1982 Topps (1967 when I got back into the hobby)
First T206: 10-12 Commons in a 2014 deal
First Card To Pay >$100 For: Nolan Ryan Rookie - Bought Raw, eventually became a PSA 4. 2012, $246.50
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: 1954 Hank Aaron PSA 6. $1600 March 5, 2015.
Most Memorable Trade: In 2nd grade, I traded a trash bag full of 1971-1974 basketball in trash bag condition for an old catcher's mitt. I got the worst of that one, even though the cards were in lower condition.

[Lobo Aullando]

First Pack of Cards: '88 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: '92 Upper Deck McDonalds basketball
First T206: Christy Mathewson dark cap
First Card To Pay >$100 For: '55 Topps Jackie Robinson (although if you factor in three decades of inflation, it would be a '60 Topps Clemente)
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: W517 Babe Ruth
Most Memorable Trade: a couple of the then stars for an '89 Donruss Griffey, because no Mariner would ever be any good (Thanks, Kevin.)

[Cmvorce]

Great stories, guys. Thanks for sharing.

[butchie_t]

Updated tonight!

First Pack of Cards: 1967 Topps

First Set Completed by Hand: 1974 Topps

First T206: 29 Nov 2021 - Jim Delehanty with a Piedmont 150 back. Thanks to philliesfan

First Card To Pay >$100 For: 1969 Mickey Mantle White Letter

First Card To Pay >$1000 For: No chance. I got the Mantle WL a long time ago..

Most Memorable Trade: Have not had one yet.

[Cmvorce]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

Updated tonight!


[B]First T206: 29 Nov 2021 - Jim Delehanty with a Piedmont 150 back. Thanks to philliesfan

Congratulations! It’s a magical set.

[abothebear]

First Pack of Cards: 1984 Fleer baseball. My dad would bring them home from the Marathon station. I’d write my friends names on the back intending to give them out when I saw them next.
First Set Completed by Hand: 1934 Gold Medal Foods WS set.
First T206: Large Ass Herzog
First Card To Pay >$100 For: haven’t paid over a hundred. Highest I’ve spent is $85 on a Cochran’s noteboook cover and also on a Churchman Ruth (that one ended up being a good buy). I spent $127 on a lot of 30s R cards that included a Foxx, Dean, Cochrane, Cronin, and more.
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: can’t imagine being in a position to pay >$1000 for a card. But I’d like to find out.
Most Memorable Trade: in 88 or 89 I received stack of 86, 87, and 88 Fleer basketball including 86 Jordan sticker and Bird stickers, 87 Ewing, 86 Wilkins, 86 Bird, for a bag of popcorn.