3,000 Hits...I mean Posts

[Leon]

Great stuff, Michael. My fist decent vintage card I got was from Brockelman (hey Scott) at a show he was set up at locally, 20+ years ago. I think I paid around 1650 for it. It was a PSA 7 Walter Johnson T205. I ended up selling it for about double that a few years down the road. That deal was made at a Taco Bell in Wylie, TX....

I have made lots of great hobby friends, and friends, from the board. I am always appreciative of being able to do it and having so many good people here. I never take it for granted.

and a random, 4 x 6, card...(shown before, of course )
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[Eggoman]

I'll play this one!

All of these came from my Grandpa when I was in my late teens! I NEVER knew that he had them! He KNEW that I collected cards, but he never said that he had any... And these were the only ones that he had!

I WAS SHOCKED! (He was a Piedmont smoker, but only had these - ALL Polar Bears!)

I got 'em graded many years later. When I sent them in, I was TERRIFIED that I would never get them back! I WILL NEVER SELL THEM!

Thanks, Gramps!

[mrvster]

and fellow goonie!!!!!!!!

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!

This place and the hobby wouldn't be the same without you my friend

My first was Roger Bresh batting raw......paid $20.00 for it....long since traded it.....

most of my firsts sadly gone

[Sean]

My first was Chick Gandil, and like Johnny my card is long gone.

[stutor]

Cool post Mike ! I still have my first prewar card (pic below) purchased ~1997. I bought it from SCP via an ad in a hobby magazine. There was no pic, but the guy on the phone described it as a ‘strong vg/ex’. When it arrived in the mail, it was the first t206 I had ever seen in person (there weren’t any card shows in or around MS that I’m aware of).

[MVSNYC]

Thanks guys!

Awesome cards, Let's see more!

[brianp-beme]

I recently posted this in another thread, but it is super on point on this one, so here it is, with a couple extra tidbits of info for those who saw it on the other thread:

These five at my first card show in 1981 at the first table on the right just as I walked into the show. They were my first vintage cards, and I spent about all the money I had with me on them...$11 total. Either the Matty or Johnson was $3, and the rest were $2 each.

They got me started in the vintage card hobby which I have never left, steered me to lower condition collecting, and as a result these cards are to blame for me having posted over 5000 times on this board. And I still have them all.

Brian