[DJCollector1]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

I freely admit I stole this thread idea from the football section. Now that we got that out of the way, I'll start. I opened 1968 wax packs in the year of issue. I must have put them in the spokes of my bike, because they're long gone. How about you?

OK, I'll bite.
I just re-entered the hobby roughly 2 1/2 years ago after about a 30 year layoff.
I had last collected with any regularity in the early-mid '80s.

I do remember opening a bunch of early 80's stuff, and even though its the far reaches of my memory, I do remember opening some '78s -'79s as well.
I know we would occasionally pick up some unopened stuff back then from past years, but it was never too far back.
Oddly enough, my father and a couple others had a shop back then in the early 80's, and we had some other unopened stuff here and there back then also.
One thing I remember opening a ton of, was the 1981 Donruss PGA Tour golf cards.
I distinctly remember we must have had nearly 60-70 unopened boxes of that stuff at one time.
Wish we still had it!!! We could barely give it away back then.

So I'm going to say for baseball, probably 1978-1979.
Golf, 1981 Donruss.
Star Wars, 1977.
Football, we opened very little of it, but I guess we opened a little bit in the early '80s as well.


Certainly not as far back as some of you here I'm sure, but its still interesting when I look back on it.