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Archive 05-18-2005 09:48 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>I've got most of mine, including the first vintage card I ever acquired (1952 Topps Dropo) and first T206 I ever got (Johnson, hands at chest). My mother never threw any away but I lost some from a burglary and sold of some others while in school to pay for necessities like beer and pizza (wish I had all those T206's and old hockey and football cards back...)

Archive 05-18-2005 09:56 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Josh K.</b><p>I have mine - mostly cards from the 70s, but a fair number from the 50's and 60's and way too many from the 80's (graduated HS in '85). Believe it or not, I didnt have a clue about true vintage cards when I collected as a kid -I thought the cards I was buying from the 50's was about as old as they got. Actually, I guess I knew about the T206 wagner, but never really thought that there might be other cards from the era that were actually affordable.<br /><br />I sure wish I had picked up some T and E cards back then - it sure would have been less expensive.

Archive 05-18-2005 09:59 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>But even my best friend, Richard Pollak, didn't collect cards; he collected comic books. I saw the first Captain Marvel (the original "big red cheese"). He talked about baaseball all the time, so I'm sure if he'd had any, he would have showed them to me.No cards.<br />But Bob tells me that at Riverview (amusement park in Chicago, long defunct), there were card machines--from his description, they sound like exhibit cards.<br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/BReesPB001.jpg"> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/bC49b001.jpg"> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/berras.JPG"> <br /><br />(excuse the '53 Bowman, he's just along for the ride).

Archive 05-18-2005 10:16 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Texas Ted</b><p>Back in the early 1970s, my cards were in a basement in Michigan and the water started to leak. I rescued them, but they were starting to smell a little, and I took them to a show in Grand Rapids and sold them all for about $2,500. I paid off my credit cards and didn't think twice about it until I reached my 50's and the regrets started to get to me. <br /><br />I was born in the 1940s, so I remember opening packs for the little Bowmans and the early Topps cards. I really liked the older cards, so I would find friends with older brothers and swap for their brothers cards. I don't remember ever having anything pre WW I. I also remember going to the county fair and buying the exhibits from the vending machine for a penny a piece. Not sure what ever happened to those.<br /><br />I still have hopes of finding something of interest in my parents house. They are in their 80s now, and have never thrown anything away. They still have all of their Life and Post magazines from the 1960s, so there is hope I could still find a small stash.<br><br>Texas Ted<br />Starting my third attempt at a second childhood.<br />

Archive 05-18-2005 10:28 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Josh K.</b><p>I was born in the late 60's - I still remember older kids in the neighborhood giving me trashbags filled with cards - that is how I acquired a lot of my older cards (50's and 60's). Unfortunately, as you might guess, while a trashbag is a fine method to store a large quantity of cards, its not so good if you intend to keep your cards in good condition. Of course, back then, I believe that every card I owned was mint.

Archive 05-18-2005 10:29 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>steve k</b><p>It wasn't the first card I handled but it's the first card I remember. A Topps 1962 #53 AL HR Leaders picturing Maris, Mantle and two others. It was the first card I decided to keep and not flip or trade. I was living in Connecticut at that time and was a huge Yankees fan so I don't have to explain how treasured was that card. I still have it. I still have most of my childhood cards.<br><br>I was the most active collector I knew. I remember in 5th grade, I needed a common to complete the 72 card embossed set from 1965. The embossed card was just an insert card which many kids threw away. I offered ten regular cards just for that one insert card. I had the whole 5th grade searching for that insert card which all the kids thought I was crazy to offer ten regular cards just for a lousy insert card, but I badly wanted to complete the set. One kid finally found one and the trade was made. <br><br>But I wasn't so crazy - I was the best card &quot;flipper&quot; I have ever known and I obtained virtually all of my cards this way - many, many thousands of them - winning them - so it's not like those ten cards really cost me anything - LOL. Maybe once a year I'll take an old VG common, stand ten feet away from the wall and throw it against the wall...I can still get it within an inch of the wall almost every throw - LOL.<br><br>Steve

Archive 05-18-2005 10:36 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Identify7</b><p>I recently sold and traded off the bulk of the cards which I no longer want from my youthful "hoard" of 50s material. Considering that they only cost me the effort associated with redeeming discarded soda bottles for their deposit, I made out quite well.<br /><br />I took the proceeds and purchased cards which I do want.<br /><br />The combination of keepers and new acquisitions makes for a good start at assembling a collection.<br /><br />I haven't progressed much beyond this point however, it takes a while for me to save up the equivalent of deposit bottles nowadays.

Archive 05-18-2005 10:39 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Rob</b><p>A single card from my childhood survived:<br /><br />1977 Topps Ron Guidry<br /><br />I'm suprised it's in EX condition.

Archive 05-18-2005 10:43 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>I still have 99.9% of the cards from my youth but unfortunately that was during the 80s and buying cards from the 60s was a big deal to me so it didnt happen often.I knew about vintage cards back then but didnt have the money or chance to get any till i was about 15

Archive 05-18-2005 10:48 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>John</b><p>I still have 95% or more of the cards from when I was a little kid. My first pack was bought by aunt when I was seven (1978 Topps Baseball) during a trip to the grocery store. I still have those cards as well as the thousands of other baseball and football cards purchased during the eighties. My first older cards were a 1959 Topps Football Preston Carpenter and a 1961 Fleer Milt Plum given to me by my neighbor in 1980. I was hooked immediately. My father would take me to shows and shops and I would spend my five bucks on the "old" cards which were mostly 50's football. I still have most of those as well. After college I began purchasing tobacco issues and National Chicle football cards. Not unlike the rest of you, I wish I would have been steered towards the pre-war issues at an earlier age, but have managed to build a meaningful vintage collection in the last fifteen years. Most of my childhood cards are relatively worthless now, but I plan to hold onto them for no other reason of the memories they evoke (and who knows what they will be worth in fifty years?).

Archive 05-18-2005 11:01 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Darren J. Duet</b><p>I do. Every single one of 'em.

Archive 05-18-2005 11:05 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Shane Killian</b><p>I still have most of mine, but they are mainly late 80s, early 90's topps, score and donruss <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />I do however have most of my fathers cards he collected while in the military which are mostly early 50s Topps , which are a lot better than those 500 1991 Topps commons i have in the closet

Archive 05-18-2005 11:06 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Richard</b><p>I made many trips to Goodwill to get rid of all of my childhood cards, but they were all from the 80's and 90's. <br /><br />My first card was a 1987 Topps Mike Scioscia and my first vintage card was a 1979 Ozzie Smith rookie. I still have the Ozzie which graded out as an 8. I held onto my 50 count lots of 1988 Score Randy Milligans for as long as I could until the need for room overcame the need for memories.

Archive 05-18-2005 11:26 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>Lee and I still have most of ours. Because all the cards got lumped together we split them up by set. I took the 1971s and 1972s, he took everything else, 70s, 73-79s. <br /><br />Jay<br><br>I like to sit outside drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.

Archive 05-18-2005 11:45 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>jackgoodman</b><p>The first packs I can truly remember buying were the 1957 Topps. My mother never threw anything away, so probably 70% of my current collection is stuff I bought myself,(and never flipped, hence decent condition) including 3 complete sets of 1963 Fleer because I splurged and asked the local candy store to sell me three complete boxes (a $3.60 investment, I believe) that has paid off quite well.<br /><br />

Archive 05-18-2005 11:58 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>I still have mine. I started buying packs in 1970 (age 4 1/2). I eventually completed my 1970 set in about 1982. My 1971 and 1972 sets are nowhere near complete, but I did manage to complete all my sets from 1973 forward, including the 75 minis. I completed most of these sets as a junior or senior in high school, on a trip with my parents to visit colleges I might go to. In every town we went to, or even passed through, I'd stop and look at the local yellow pages and find the card shops. This was, obviously, before the internet.<br /><br />I honestly don't remember my first vintage card ("vintage" being defined as anything from 1969 or before, since I started collecting in 1970). It definitely would have been from the Card Collectors Company. It may have been a 51 Topps Berra which I later traded away, but have since re-acquired. Or it might have been a 68 Topps Drysdale which I remember getting very early on, and still have. <br /><br />I'm also not sure what my first pre-war card was. It may have been my E-90-1 Keeler from Paul E. Marchant, or my 33 Goudey Terry from the same source. I traded both of these away as well, but got the exact same Keeler back in a later trade.

Archive 05-18-2005 12:21 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Still have mine (over 10K of them). I remember garbage-picking several '56 Topps commons on my morning paper route in the early 70s, likely someone's mom throwing their kid's cards away.

Archive 05-18-2005 12:42 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Robert</b><p>at 11 years old in the early 70's I had books on all the hall of famers and was only interested in collecting those cards. I worked for my dad in the summers for $50.00 per week and every saturday I would take a bus to ACME cards owned by Goody Goldfladden and would spend my entire pay on every hall of famer I would ask for "Cobbs" $6.00 each, Johnson $4.00, Walsh $2.00, only collected T206, T205, 33 & 34 Goudeys, 39 & 40 Playballs and Diamond Stars. After m Bar Mitzvah my dad let me have $3000.00 to spend on my collection and I had a field day at Goody's. The best card I got was a T206 Plank which still is not graded and I would estimate it at least a 5 borderline 6 for $50.00. My collection is still in the plastic sheets and books that I put them in when I was a kid. My only regret is I was not knowledgable enough or cared about trying to complete sets and get the error cards which I am sure I could of done cheaply. But I am very happy with what I have and keep it in a safty deposit box that I visit a few times a year to reflect on my childhood.

Archive 05-18-2005 07:32 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>JimB</b><p>I still have my cards from packs ('75-'81) I have complete sets from '79-'81. Lots of sentimental value.<br />JimB

Archive 05-18-2005 07:53 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>About 25 years ago when I was a teenager, I had thousands of cards in the attic in an open box. We had a cat that would climb the ladder into the attic & hide out. I thought it funny, a cat climbing a ladder. Until, I found that my box of cards was his other litter box. Every single card was bloated & stuck together. Yes, the cat eventually died of natural causes.

Archive 05-18-2005 08:12 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Chris</b><p>I'm with you John... I still have just about every one of my cards, but unfortunately they're all from the 80's. My first card was an '86 sportflics Pete Rose that I bought from an older kid in my neighborhood. <br /><br />I do still have my first T206 that I bought for $3. It got me started in the "good stuff" and other than a few new packs here and there I haven't looked back.

Archive 05-18-2005 08:18 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Chris</b><p>Robert -- in response to your message...<br /><br />That's a great story, glad you still have your cards. The only thing I might humbly suggest is that if they're still in the original plastic pages you placed them in years ago, you may want to replace them with newer (hopefully safer) ones. I'm not an expert, but I've read that a lot of those older plastics contain materials that might not be suitable for longer term storage. Perhaps someone more knowledgable can confirm or deny.

Archive 05-18-2005 11:39 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>my first serious collecing was the '75 Topps set. i kept them in my official circa 1969 baseball card locker (remember those?). my friend an i would walk to the U-Totem store every week. i just about had three complete sets with all the extra cards but couldn't ever seem to get about a dozen cards to complete a set. late in the year my friend came across a list from a card dealer. i had never heard of a card dealer. seems i could save a lot of trouble and just buy the cards i was missing from him (which i did). funny thing, those cards i bought seemed tainted somehow. the set never truely felt complete after i "cheated" to fill it out. i've still got that dealer's list somewhere. it's pretty fun to pull it out now and then and see the 1975 prices for the early vintage cards.<br /><br />rob m.

Archive 05-18-2005 11:45 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>tbob</b><p>I bought my first card in 1958 and collected until 1963 when I gave up cards, comic books and other similar pursuits. I had at one time more than one complete set of all years (with tons left over), plus Fantastic Four 1-25, Amazing Spiderman 1-25, Avengers 1-20, etc. all complete and in near mint shape. Mom threw out the comics, I got rid of the cards myself. Sports, girls, and just trying to be cool cost me a fortune. I got back in to the card hobby in the early '80s and have been hooked ever since.

Archive 05-19-2005 10:23 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Mark</b><p>Zach and the T206kid do.

Archive 05-19-2005 11:49 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>In 1977 (I was 12) a friend heard of Goldfadden's store and told me and I nagged my mom into driving me there. I picked up a couple of early Aaron cards (I think a 55 and a 56) and remember turning down a 54 rookie with back damage for about twelve bucks.

Archive 05-19-2005 01:15 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Zach</b><p>Ok lets start off by never putting me in the same sentence as the t206 kid jk. I started in the mid 90's with my brother and dad..they did baseball and football and I did basketball. In 5th grade the author of Honus and Me and Babe and Me etc. came to our school and gave out free autographed books to us and our teachers read them to us. So pretty much in 5th grade I got back into it again but this time for baseball..I still have all of my basketball..thousands of cards along with my dads and brothers Upper Deck football and baseball must take up atleast 12 big binders and 50 plus clear plastic 200ct boexes. If we had only known what else we could have got for that money. I've searched for my dads old cards at his parents house many times..attic etc. they can't remember really throwing them away..they most likely did but oh well I like the hunt.

Archive 05-19-2005 01:35 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>Zach hasnt even got all his cards from his youth yet!<br /><br />It is fun once in awhile to pull out the mid/late 80s boxes and seeing some of the odd cards,like the 3d topps cards,lipton tea discs,those donruss big cards.Got all 3 sets of 110 still.My favorite were the fleer minis from 1987,i always liked that set and the mini's were my favorite.Im thinking of sueing fleer for my eye doctor bills because that small print really was bad for them.<br /><br />Maybe i can get Hal to take my case and ill pay him off in cards

Archive 05-19-2005 03:27 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>I still have all my cards from 1967 to 1970, such as they, in loveable g-vg shape. (Oh Julio Gotay!) I even managed to snaggle a few 1965 Topps in trade (including a gem good Mickey Mantle) for some Airfix soldiers obtained in a trade when I thought I was a savvy 12 year old (1970).<br /><br />I have all my hockey cards, except for my Bobby Orr rookie card, which is priceless, especially given the rare variation I have of Bobby in glasses and a goatee (I didn't like the Boston Bruins at the time) It's the only card my mother couldn't find for me when she dug my old cards out of storage--so if you see it on ebay, you'll know who the villain is.<br /><br /><br />Max

Archive 05-19-2005 04:41 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>peter ullman</b><p>I sold off my collection as a junior in high school after I totalled my 76 ford granada. I had kinda lost interest and needed a car. I basically gave it all, most significant cards from late 50's to current, away for $1000 which I spent on a 77 camaro. I DID keep some cards, all of my vintage...all 5 of them, a maris rookie autographed and a roy campanella symbol of courage card. I got back in during the late 80's early nineties glut and as a result also have my attic insulated with frank thomas rookie cards. These days it's only vintage!!!<br /><br />pet in mn

Archive 05-19-2005 06:41 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>that I collected under his influence--'50s, '60s and '70s.<br /> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/BBCox52001.jpg"> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/BCam52B001.jpg"> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/BKou55T001.jpg">

Archive 05-19-2005 08:52 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Mark Evans</b><p>I collected the 1961 Topps set as a kid and still prize the collection. I collected in conjunction with my best friend and we engaged in trades which ultimately allowed both of us to complete the set. In the very last trade, I traded all my doubles for the one final card I needed -- a common, Joe Gibbon. Some thirty years later, I assisted the same friend (long out of the hobby) in selling his cards, including my doubles, to Alan Rosen. Hope to see all in Chicago. Mark

Archive 05-19-2005 10:38 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>tim Mayer</b><p>i still have mine, i replaced them with newer cleaner copies, but still have about 200 1981 Topps in horrible condition, and mostly Yanks..they are garbage and I love them.<br /><br />they prettiest looking cards in the world to me,,,,

Archive 05-19-2005 11:24 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>I started collecting in the early 70s in NJ wherein my mom would occasionally drive me to the Lin-Den in Linden, NJ where I would score a few packs and beat them to death. After collecting pack by pack until 1977 (I recall nearly every birthday present I received in 1974 had scores of those red, wax Topps packs with the white baseball on the front piled inside), I discovered the Sporting News and, of course, Renata Galasso. I would send my 13 bucks away (I also ordered plastic sheets) and wait for what seemed like an eternity (usually 6 - 8 weeks) for the box to come with my complete set. I'd then sit on the floor of my bedroom and study each card and sort them into plastic sheets team by team. What a ritual that was for me. All of those old sets sat around until I got older and got the bug again. I started by buying mint sets back to 1969..and then realized that I just couldn't be satisfied with the cards of my youth and I began putting together sets back to 1954...and then I began satisfying my lifelong yearning for tobacoo cards, Old Judges, CJs, etc...and now I'm a full fledged, addicted collector...but not a single card of my youth was every thrown away and I can't wait to give the entire set (especially my own collected cards as a kid) to my two sons...I just hope they catch the bug like I did.

Archive 05-20-2005 01:12 PM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Glenn</b><p>Yeah, I have most of my cards still, but I didn't start collecting until 1986, so I have thousands of cards from the late 80's and early 90's that are just taking up space and reminding me that it's not always such a great idea to jump on the bandwagon. <br /><br />I'm reminded of the birthday card my mother gave my grandfather several years back. <br /><br />"70 years old and you've still got it...but no one wants to see it anymore."

Archive 05-21-2005 12:11 AM

Who still has their cards from when they were kids?
 
Posted By: <b>Glen V</b><p>I bought my first packs back in the early 70's. I still have every one of the cards, but most aren't in great shape due to handling them a lot and using them to build card houses. I also had lots of Wacky Pack stickers. They were in much better shape since they didn't work well for houses. Sold them a while back - definately a mistake, seeing what they go for now.


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