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Childhood memories
Posted By: Lee Behrens
Scott bfought up an interesting topic in another thread, childhood memories of buying cards. |
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Childhood memories
Posted By: runscott
I started big - a rack pack of '65 Topps. First football pack was a '67 Philly Gum and included a Dan Reeves rookie card. My town was so small that we never got high# Topps series, and the following year we always got fooled at least once by Drug Store owners trying to get rid of last year's inventory. |
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Posted By: BRIAN
GREAT TOPIC! MY DAD USED TO TAKE ME TO THE MAJIK MARKET TO BUT 1976 CELLOS AFTER SCHOOL. AS A DIEHARD YANKEE FAN I CAN STILL REMEMBER BUYING PACKS WITH THURMON MUNSON, ROY WHITE, AND MY FAVORITE PLAYER GRAIG NETTLES ON TOP. EVEN THOUGH I PRIMARILY COLLECT VINTAGE CARDS I STILL GET A THRILL OUT OF OPENING PACKS FROM 1976, AND ROUTINLY BUY CELLOS AND RACKS OFF EBAY. |
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Posted By: Mike Williams
were spent playing flip! That's right...flip! You'd either go home loaded with dinged up cards or you'd go home begging Mom and Dad for a buck or two so you could play again tomorrow! I also used to like to do the spoke thing with the bicycle....GREAT TIMES! Pitty kids don't even know what flip is these days! |
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Posted By: John Wojak
that flipping was the best! In fourth, fifth and sixth grade ('71-'73) we used to flip cards every lunch hour on the playground. When you lost and ran out of cards, you just bought some of your lost cards back from your friends for a penny a card, didn't matter who it was. Imagine - a penny a card for '71 Topps cards, mint out the pack, stars and all. Where is that time machine when you need it? |
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Posted By: jay behrens
We did a pretty good job of keeping that little store open on our own. The first box I remember buying was a 1972 baseball box that cost a whole $3.60 and they wanted to charge tax on which meant I would not have been able to afford it. They finally relented and sold it to me for $3.60 after I told them I would just buy a couple of packs at a time, walk out the store and come back in since they didn't charge tax if you only bought a few packs. This also explains I why I have so many 72s. I still have most of the 72s and 71s from when I was a kid. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
till I was grown up. My best friend was a boy (till I was 10), but he collected comic books and listened to baseball games. In 1945. he talked me out of being a Cubs fan (that was the last time the Cubs were in the Series...) I remember him showing me the first Captain Marvel (I didn't collect comic books either). I collected rocks, and as soon as I was able to pry my mother's Leica out of her hands (she NEVER learned from experience), I took photographs, in school, at night, inside, always of people. I still love black-and-white photography. |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
My first pack in 1971. Every Friday night my family went out for dinner and we usually ended up at the mall in Mahopac NY, where my Dad would buy me a pack or two at the candy store. I still have a few of those dog-eared 1971's. |
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Posted By: Lee Behrens
My brother and I both collected cards. They all got mixed together. When it came time to decide who's cards were who's of course he calaimed all the more expensive sets and left me with the lesser sets. He did bail out about 1977So he had no claim to cards after that. |
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Posted By: W.M.
I was 12yrs. old when I discovered Baseball and Baseball cards. I use to buy 1974 topps cards at little league games when we lived in VA Beach Virginia. My favorite cards were the Hank Aaron cards. To this day my 1974 topps cards are my favorite. |
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Posted By: nolemmings (Todd)
I started collecting in '66, at age 7. The kids on the block were hoarding the local Twins cards fresh off their WS appearance-- my first Twin was Sandy Valdespino. Anyway, we were only kind of dabbling at that age-- I doubt any of us had more than a 100 cards. |
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Posted By: runscott
I saw Sandy Valdespino play as an Astro when I was a kid. I also bought cards at the Ben Franklin, in a small town in Louisiana where my grandparents lived. We also saw the twins a few times - the Astros used to play a 3-game series with them at the Dome, during pre-season. The highlight though was a pre-season game against the Orioles, my second-favorite team. Poor Frank Robinson - a very good manager stuck in Montreal. Maybe he can pull them out of their history-long funk. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
I kept the 71s and 72s, he got everything else, 70s and everything 73 and after and all the non-baseball cards, so it's not as bad as he makes it out to be. |
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Posted By: Kevin Cummings
My introduction to baseball cards was when an older kid up the block gave me a couple of his beat up 1956 extras. I was hooked almost immediately. |
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Posted By: John
always fooled every year scott? you must be from georgia |
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Posted By: darthshoeless
I remember in 1975 at the age of 4 looking at the bottom of Twinkee boxes for any Cubs players. I still have them, cut from the boxes myself. Most of the cards are a diamond shape, though. Probably should have let my mom cut them out. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
I was 5 in 1940, and 15 in 1950. Not too many cards around during those years. Dick was a year older. |
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Posted By: David
You're the same age as my dad, Dale 'Haven't Reached My Peak Yet' Rudd. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
on the board. Wish it made me the smartest. Or the richest. Unfortunately, just the oldest. |
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Posted By: tbob
I remember buying both 1 cent and 5 cent packs of 1958 Topps cards at Wyberg's drug store on Hennepin Street in Minneapolis as a young kid and wondering why some of the cards had the team and player's names in yellow instead of white. We would often go ahead and buy 30 penny packs to get the 30 pieces of great pink powdery slab gum along with the cards as opposed to buying 6 nickel packs and getting 48 cards but only 6 pieces of gum. We would scour the neighborhood for bottles and cash them in to get the pennies, nickels and dimes to buy cards. |
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Posted By: Bob
I didn't buy baseball cards so much as a kid- when I did, I never seemed to get any of the big players I wanted at the time (grew up in CT in the 60s, so we're talking Yaz, Rico Petrocelli and the rest). What did I buy? Primarily comic books, but for cards: Dark Shadows cards, Beatles cards, Monkees cards, Planet of the Apes cards. I don't have any of them now, but as a grown up (well, that might be presumptuous of me), I'm loving how I can get on E-bay and buy those elusive Yaz cards now. |
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