The Card That Started It All.

[robedits]

Dont have the card(s) anymore...but:
One day,mid 80s,my dad brought out his tattered collection of 33/34 Goudeys he had collected as a youth. I had stopped collecting cards when I started college almost 10 yrs earlier.
Seeing these fueled my passion again,and he mentioned that one of his former students had a card shop in town. I visited,and immediately bought a 53 Kiner,53 Paige,couple of 48 Bowmans and some random 52s. I then went fullbore into vintage and not-so-vintage collecting for almost 20 years.

My mom's great uncle was a pitcher for Brooklyn in early century (Nap Rucker);I've posted this before. Family visited him right before he died down south in my youth (when I was heavily into playing youth baseball and buying Topps packs;around early 70s),and he showed me and my brother his shirt,cap,and tattered glove (hanging in a barn on his estate). In an album in a cabinet in his office,he showed us some of his early T cards and foldouts,one of which I still have today. This visit was personally responsible for my lifelong interest in the game and its history; my dad showing me his Goudeys (which I hadnt seen since I was a child) rekindled my interest in sportscards in general.

I dont buy much anymore,and have been cherry-picked out of most of my valuable vintage cards/sets....but I still love cards and will always...vintage and not-so-vintage!

[2dueces]

Not pre war but a 1966 Topps Tom Sestak card. I am an avid Bills fan and never forgot that pack. I completed the set a few years ago and find upgrades every now and then. The card that started my pre war obsession was a T206 Buffalo card in 2005. It is in a PRO holder. . Found this forum not long after and about 120 T206's and 30 or so turn of the century RPPC'S of baseball teams later here I am. BTW, for some reason I never bought another card in a PRO holder again. . No worries though, the card only grades a 5.