What was your first T card?

[riggs336]

1977. I heard about a guy in a neighboring town who had a set of T206 for sale. I borrowed $1000 from my dad and drove to see him. He had the set--I suppose it was a 520--but wanted $2000. I couldn't talk him down, but he offered to sell me a few dupes for a buck each. All I had was $100 bills and he had no change, so he gave me Jake Beckley.

[GasHouseGang]

I started with a star. Picked it up from a board member.

[akleinb611]

Early 1970's, a West Coast dealer whose name I don't recall (and I also don't recall how I heard about him) was selling T218 boxers for twenty five cents each and T206's for fifty cents. I sent him a dollar, got two T218's (James Jeffries and Jack Johnson!), and the T206 pictured on the right. Not a bad deal. I haven't needed to replace it in the fifty-plus years since.

The other card, a 1961 Ralph Houk, is literally the first baseball card I ever owned.

Alan

[rats60]

T206 Mathewson. I paid $20 for it in 1985.

[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Originally Posted by riggs336

1977. I heard about a guy in a neighboring town who had a set of T206 for sale. I borrowed $1000 from my dad and drove to see him. He had the set--I suppose it was a 520--but wanted $2000. I couldn't talk him down, but he offered to sell me a few dupes for a buck each. All I had was $100 bills and he had no change, so he gave me Jake Beckley.

Hannibal's own!

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

My first was Kisinger, purchased for $1 from board member Gary Nucherino a heck of a long time ago. I was just a kid.

The second was the Frank Smith two teams variation, purchased for a few bucks from the awesome old Hall's Nostalgia less than a year later.