Leave it to Ted to pull a Honus Wagner in his first pack of cards.
My first pack was 1984 Topps. My parents probably bought it just to shut me up in the grocery store. Little did they know what they started. The only card that I still have from that pack is a Dave Dravecky. No scan available - it's somewhere in my parents' attic, hundreds of miles away.
Years later, c. 1991, I would buy 1981 Donruss cards from the LCS (I think they were $2.50 a pack). Usually threw out the ten year old gum, but one day my brother wanted to try it and he cut his tongue. I did pull the Rickey Henderson though.