Fun time....Show-n-Tell us of experiences pulling cards from wax-packs in your youth

[chriskim]

I opened an unopened Piedmont pack and pulled a t206 around 20 yrs ago... i know i know... no one would believe me and I didn't expect to pull t206 from it neither. There were no cellphone or easy access of video recorder back then so I didn't tape it. Anyways... i have been quietly buying that specific piedmont packs and hope to open them all one night when I got really drunk.

[Exhibitman]

I don't have much left of my childhood pack pulls but I do have a few: 1976 Hank Aaron, 1980 Rickey Henderson come to mind. I have quite a few cards from my childhood and early adulthood but those were not pack-pulled. As an adult I've had terrible luck busting packs. The only really good card I've ever pulled is this one:

[tedzan]

I sometimes wonder, if I just had started collecting cards when I began going to Kindergarten, I would also have these gems in my original collection.
There was a nearby Candy Store on our way walking to school back in the early 1940's.

BLONY Bubble Gum.....1941 Play Ball and R164 (1942-1943) cards



TED Z

T206 Reference
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[Bobbycee]

Originally Posted by chriskim

I opened an unopened Piedmont pack and pulled a t206 around 20 yrs ago... i know i know... no one would believe me and I didn't expect to pull t206 from it neither. There were no cellphone or easy access of video recorder back then so I didn't tape it. Anyways... i have been quietly buying that specific piedmont packs and hope to open them all one night when I got really drunk.

C'mon Chris. How do you leave us hanging like that?!! Who was the player you pulled from the Piedmont pack?

[tedzan]

Reflecting back on hobbies in my youth, I regret not continuing Sportscard collecting after 1952. I moved on to stamps, coins, cars.....and Girls

I favored the BOWMAN cards, and I wish I had continued into 1953. Especially, the BOWMAN Kodakchrome color BB cards.


1953 BOWMAN wrapper.

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TED Z

T206 Reference
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[tedzan]

Some of the fondest memories from my youth are from the year 1949. There were some great movies that year..... The Sands of Iwo Jima, Samson and Delilah,
Twelve O'Clock High, The Monte Stratton Story (Jimmy Stewart does an excellent portrayal of a BB pitcher in the 1930's....check-it-out).

It all began with the 1949 LEAF cards, then followed by the 1949 BOWMAN cards. My memories of collecting these BB sets are still clear in my mind. I've written
articles on the LEAF set and BOWMAN set (read about them in the OLD CARDBOARD, Issue #9....and BASEBALL CARDS MAGAZINE, Spring 1983....respectively).


............ extremely rare 1949 PCL wrapper .................................................. ................... regular 5-cent 1949 wrapper




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........................ Rookie card ........................



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4th Series....complete 36-card sheet



Hey Guys,

Thanks for sharing your fond memories with us of when you started collecting Sportscards in your youth. And, let's continue hearing some more stories.


TED Z

T206 Reference
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