First Pack of Cards

[philliesfan]

I have no idea of the first pack I opened as I had a lot of late 1960's cards and a few from 1970 in my prime of collecting. Then the cards magically disappeared......thanks mom. When I was about 14 or 15, I bought a pack of 1975 mini's and pulled a Yaz. I still have those cards from that pack.
Bob

[nolemmings]

1966 Mankato MN, Ben Franklin store at the Tempo shopping center. Rode my bike the 2 1/2 blocks, pulled a Sandy Valdespino in the first pack, although it may not have been the first card.

Also would have bought '66 Philly gum and Topps football later that year at the same place, but don't remember the players in the first pack. Do remember Jerry Sturm's card though-- look at it sometime and tell me as a 7 year-old kid that the card would not make an impression (you decide the impression). Seemed like he was trying to fly through the clouds-- I still chuckle when I see it.

[Fred]

My brother started around 1964, he's 7 years older than me and I think I my first pack was around 1971 or 1972. You'd think that if it was 1971 I'd remember because of the black fronts on the cards.

My brother kicked the habit pretty young when he figured out girls were more fun to play with than cards.

I no longer buy packs (ok, rarely) so my knowledge of all these shiny, limited, 1/1 and other crud is foreign to me. Perhaps that's a good thing because I'd rather chase the old stuff than have a 1/1 shiny card of the flavor of the month that resides in a TPG holder with a 10 on the label. I still have a hard time understanding that obsession.

What happens if you pay $100K for flavor of the month and the player gets popped for PEDs and no longer produces at an incredible rate that gave them flavor of the month status? Holy crap, when I think about people paying out that kind of money for shiny and new I think about all the vintage I could buy with that money. I digress...