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02-09-2013, 10:52 PM
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Since age five in early 1981, still have a handful of those first cards. A kid brought a garbage bag full of cards into school and let us pick out a couple each. I took all Pirates players and for some reason, a Paul Dade card. Wouldn't trade those cards for anything.
Started vintage at age 16, bought a T206 Bresnahan portrait up in Cooperstown
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02-09-2013, 11:01 PM
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My first packs were 1978 topps. Still remember getting 5 packs for a $1 around 1980 at 7-11 with my grandparents. Also used to buy the twinkees and ding dongs for the 3 cards on the bottom of the box. Never stopped collecting, though I should have from 1985 til....anyways. Just started
T206's late last year(dont know what took so long).
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02-09-2013, 11:32 PM
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I first started ripping packs in 1975 and went to my first show in 1979 in Los Angeles. Other than a brief break in my late teens and early 20's, I have been collecting pretty consistently since then. I got my first vintage cards (T206s) around 1980.
JimB
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02-09-2013, 11:47 PM
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1972 - 6yrs old, still love that set - the colors, man, the colors
When I was 8, I noticed my 3rd grade teacher was giving out these really old and amazing cards (1955-1957 Topps) to kids who got top grades, etc. I was blown away, the other kids could care less. I worked out a deal with her and traded her a big stack of my 1974 doubles for all the "old" ones she could find. Lots of great 1955's - Koufax, Killebrew, Matthews. Ended up selling them in college to fix my broken-down car. Picked up my first T3 Turkey Red in Anaheim aroung 1989 or so. Paid $60 to a guy named Lowell Katz for a beat up "Trying to Catch Him Napping". What a treasure, couldn't believe my luck.
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02-10-2013, 01:09 AM
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Started collecting tobacco cards when I was 10 in 1908, about when I started smoking too. Had boxes and boxes full of T206s although we didn't call 'em that then. Got myself killed in the World War. Don't know what happened to my cards.
Was reincarnated in 1950, saw my first Topps baseball cards in 1955 and got hooked again. Busted packs, flipped and traded through the fifties, then migrated to comic books and then to sex and drugs and rock'n'roll. Cards did not survive. Came into the vintage card game around 2000, tentatively at first, but it's an all-consuming passion now.
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