First Pack of Cards

[MuncieNolePAZ]

1987 Topps. No idea what cards I got.

Chad

[scottglevy]

1977. dad bought them for me when I was 3. I don’t remember any tbh hi g about it. But found a small stack of them complete with 3-year old scribbles on the front and back of nearly every card.

[JackR]

I opened a ton of them in 1960 at the Sun Drugs in Sharon, PA, but don’t remember any specific cards. I do specifically remember not getting any Roberto Clementes or Mickey Mantles.

[riggs336]

1953 Topps. Can't remember the player. I do remember, when my parents took me to Woolworths to get some more cards, seeing 1951 Berk Ross cards still for sale.
Of course I didn't know they were Berk Ross or 1951, but I clearly remember the little windows on the packaging.

[bozzio37]

1971 Topps Super Baseball. I was 4 years old. Three big, colorful, thick cards (perfect for grubby little hands) and gum for a dime. I put together 62 of the 63 cards back then - never got the damn Nate Colbert until one of my first card shows in college. Think I paid a buck for it.


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[LEHR]

My first cards were 1977 Topps Star Wars wax packs purchased from Woolco and Kmart. My first sports cards were 1979 Topps football wax packs my dad bought me from the local hardware store.

[frohme]

Like many others, first pack was from 7-11, 1969. I was 6, it was after baseball practice. I seem to recall Harmon Killebrew, and definitely had a Reggie at some point.

Was actually more into the Slurpee cups back then - ultimately traded the cards away for the cups I needed to get a complete run of either '71 or '72, can't recall, but they have survived several moves more or less intact.

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Mike

[swabie2424]

1979 Topps pack from the local drug store near my childhood home in Connecticut. Ozzie Smith RC… which sparked my first PC. Nothing wrong with starting with The Wizard!!!

[rats60]

1965 Topps. I don't remember who I got, but I do remember having a t-shirt covered with the iron ons. Like several others, I got a lot of my cards from 7-11 and also Stop N Go. I have a complete set of slurpee cups obtained by drinking a lot slurpees.

[darwinbulldog]

1986 Donruss. No stars, but I remember Johnny Ray had the highest batting average in the pack.

[SyrNy1960]

Not a first pack of cards, but this what got me started into collecting cards. 1970's Nabisco Sugar Daddy

[olecow]

1978 Topps cello pack with Woodie Fryman at the top. He was a Cub and growing up in the Chicago area I thought why not. I was 8 years old and didn't know too much about Major League baseball. I was too busy playing ball with friends. There were also Tom Seaver and Pete Rose cards in that pack. Not a bad pack.

[Seiklis]

My Dad started me at 4 and got me a 1988 Fleer partial set for Christmas 1989. The stars were removed so he got it dirt cheap and I didn't really care one way or another

[benge610]

These are the actual cards.
My Dad would pick me up from the "babysitter's house" after his work; she was a friend of the family; I walked to her house after school each day; in case some may worry about me needing a babysitter, lol.
My Dad would always pick up the late edition newspaper, before going home. I would get lucky sometimes; asking Dad if I could get a pack of baseball cards; when he responded, "Sure".
I pulled Mick from the first pack; sure, he's MC/OC but he was and still is, mine.
(Love my Mom. She kept the shoeboxes)



Ben

"I love baseball history backstory; especially when it involves cards."

[tobychin]

1957 I was eleven years old. My Mom and my pal Marty’s Mom had taken us to the city to visit our orthodontist. While they shopped we were given a couple of dollars and went to the Morgan and Lindsey store. First time we had seen baseball cards. Love at first sight.

[Lorewalker]

1976 Topps from Toyorama, John Henry's and most super markets.

[JustinD]

For the Gen-xer’s who remember those awesome rainbow colored Topps Fun Packs at Halloween, mine were 1978 Close Encounters of the Third Kind in my trick or treat bag.

Started a many, many years long hobby…good job Topps.

In that same vein, I found Pokémon Halloween fun packs this year. I handed them out with the candy and couldn’t believe the kids excitement. I hope it grows for a few of them like it did for me.

[jethrod3]

I think someone bought me a pack of 1971 Super Baseball at our local candy store in NY, but it wasn't until 1972 that I got a cello pack at the Walgreens after we moved to FL. Since I'd actually started collecting cards in 1970 though, about 15 years ago I treated myself to an opened 1970 wax pack. Spent about $50 on that pack, and when I opened it, I was astonished to find a mint Mays and Rose in that pack!

[cornhusker]

First baseball pack was '77 topps cello from a gas station outside of Hershey, PA. I remember there was a Larry Bowa card and I thought he was one of the coolest because in school our teacher used him as an example in an inspirational talk. Something along the lines of chase down your dreams kind of thing because Bowa had been cut from his high school team multiple times yet persevered and was a star player for the Phillies. I don't remember the Phillies being all that good at the time but it was great doing the bus trips from the sticks where i lived to Vets Stadium to see them play.
Had to stretch the quarter allowance back then to pick up those cool blue border Star Wars cards too. Man, they were cool. I sold most of my childhood cards when I was at college so I had $ to wine n dine my lady friends. Was able to re-acquired those SW cards in really nice condition recently. Kinda funny to be chasing the same cards at 55 that we were trading as 5-year old kids. Ha

[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...

[Rad_Hazard]

1990 Topps was my first pack and still one of my favorite designs.

[gonefishin]

1963 Fleer - it was cheaper than Topps at Taylor's grocery store.

That was opening a pack, but I cut cards off the back of cereal boxes before that. The attached picture is one of them I've had all these years.

[jayshum]

I first started collecting cards in 1975 when I was 7 so that would have been the first pack I got. I don't remember anything about it, but I still have the 1975 set I put together.

[5-Tool Player]

1968 topps....Dad gave me quarter for "allowance" and I'd run down to the corner store and buy 5 packs ( 5 cents) and I can recall walking back home opening the packs and reading the players names and facts on back of the card. GREAT memories .......so grateful for my family and the hard work, hoping to past that along to MY family ......Amen

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays to one and all

[JimC]

My Dad started bringing me packs of cards in 1973. We collected a couple hundred baseball cards. By football season I was hooked and we put together the entire set. Still have them all.

[3finger1908]

1984 Topps purchased at a convenience store at 55 St Johns Ave, Highland Park, IL, one block from my elementary school. No idea who I pulled from the pack. Within 2 years I had a subscription to Sports Collectors Digest.

[cammb]

1954 Scoops cards.

[Leon]

It was '66 or '67 Topps.....don't remember the specifics other than...

it probably would have been at a concession stand at a little league ballpark, in SW Houston.

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[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by eon

It was '66 or '67 Topps.....don't remember the specifics other than...

it probably would have been at a concession stand at a little league ballpark, in SW Houston.

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How in the world do people remember who they pulled from a pack of cards on some random day 50 years ago. With all due respect. . . . I ain't buying it . . . . .

[CurtisFlood]

61 Topps, do not remember the initial pulls, but must have bought some high number packs because I had some of those slippery rascals. We picked up pop bottles for 1 cent each and the packs cost 5 cents. The next year 62's came out, I bought a couple packs and hated them and the fact they went up to 10 cents a pack. I think my best pull in 62 was Cuno Barragan. Very awful.