What was your first T card?

[SteveMitchell]

[FONT="Georgia"]The year was either 1963 or '64 and I (a young teen) attended with my family a Maine country auction one Saturday evening in North Yarmouth. We attended fairly regularly for the entertainment value and the possibility of obtaining some treasure for the proverbial song. But, to that date, no baseball cards had ever been offered.

This night, five big old cards came up for bid. As I had no American Card Catalog for reference until 1966 or '67, I only knew they were old cards and definitely worth all I had to spend: 75 cents. The bidding started at 25 cents (my bid) and it appeared I would have a real bargain ... until another upped me by a quarter. I came back with 6 bits and won the lot.

Best card was a Turkey Red (T3) of Wildfire Schulte and that's the one I consider my "first" T card.

That card went, together with the balance of my childhood collection, to Frank Nagy - who got me re-started in collecting within days of that sale!

[Leon]

That's very cool, Steve. I was either 2 or 3 yrs old when you attended the auction.
The first T card I remember buying (might have had a few others but don't remember them) was a T205 Johnson in a PSA 7 holder. I am pretty sure I paid Scott B about 1650 for it....That was in around 2000 or so....

Originally Posted by SteveMitchell

[FONT="Georgia"]The year was either 1963 or '64 and I (a young teen) attended with my family a Maine country auction one Saturday evening in North Yarmouth. We attended fairly regularly for the entertainment value and the possibility of obtaining some treasure for the proverbial song. But, to that date, no baseball cards had ever been offered.

This night, five big old cards came up for bid. As I had no American Card Catalog for reference until 1966 or '67, I only knew they were old cards and definitely worth all I had to spend: 75 cents. The bidding started at 25 cents (my bid) and it appeared I would have a real bargain ... until another upped me by a quarter. I came back with 6 bits and won the lot.

Best card was a Turkey Red (T3) of Wildfire Schulte and that's the one I consider my "first" T card.

That card went, together with the balance of my childhood collection, to Frank Nagy - who got me re-started in collecting within days of that sale!

[steve B]

This one, Polar Bear back, and barely still in one piece thanks to a bit of tape.

I hung out at Halls Nostalgia for a while, and liked the T206s. At the time they put them in a part of a plastic page on a 3x with some stats.

One day they said they had a card for me. A T206, and only 20 cents instead of the 1.50 for the nice ones.

I soon bought more somewhat nicer ones.

[Zach Wheat]

My first T card was a T206 portrait of Walter Johnson (no pic right now). The card was a throw in when I was buying a nice looking Koufax rookie. Got hooked on T cards...

[tachyonbb]

My uncle died when I was 7. He had 4 daughters and I was his only godson so his wife gave me all his baseball cards. He had shoeboxes full of small cards ( I now know they were all T205 and T206 cards) and weird square cards with Goudey on them. I was only interested in current topps cards at the time. I remember using the Goudey cards in my spokes on my bike to make it sound "cool". My mom threw them all away when I went to college. My youngest daughter got into the 2002 Topps T cards. Hit on a t206 Bradley buyback insert. It brought back memories of my uncle and I did some research. I now have about 100 t206 cards and add a couple of cards a year to my collection.

[tachyonbb]

My uncle died when I was 7. He had 4 daughters and I was his only godson so his wife gave me all his baseball cards. He had shoeboxes full of small cards ( I now know they were all T205 and T206 cards) and weird square cards with Goudey on them. I was only interested in current topps cards at the time. I remember using the Goudey cards in my spokes on my bike to make it sound "cool". My mom threw them all away when I went to college. My youngest daughter got into the 2002 Topps T cards. Hit on a t206 Bradley buyback insert. It brought back memories of my uncle and I did some research. I now have about 100 t206 cards and add a couple of cards a year to my collection.

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by tachyonbb

My uncle died when I was 7. He had 4 daughters and I was his only godson so his wife gave me all his baseball cards. He had shoeboxes full of small cards ( I now know they were all T205 and T206 cards) and weird square cards with Goudey on them. I was only interested in current topps cards at the time. I remember using the Goudey cards in my spokes on my bike to make it sound "cool". My mom threw them all away when I went to college. My youngest daughter got into the 2002 Topps T cards. Hit on a t206 Bradley buyback insert. It brought back memories of my uncle and I did some research. I now have about 100 t206 cards and add a couple of cards a year to my collection.

Not many of us can say we put Goudey cards in our bicycle spokes!

[Bigdaddy]

Probably sometime in the late 1980's, my dad picked up our first T206. And yes, it was because of the 'stache.

[EGreenwood]

My first was a T206 Oscar Stanage (SC) in the early eighties on a card shop on Lincoln in Anaheim, CA. My Dad bought it for me for $9, and I have been working on a back run for the past few years. I need a Tolstoi and a Broadleaf. I will call it a day after the Tolstoi.

Funny thing is I work in the area and frequently pass by the location which is an insurance company now.

[calvindog]

I bought this on eBay and nearly had a heart attack when I won it. I didn't even know what the OC on the flip meant.