What card are you thankful for? (See what I did there?)

[pawpawdiv9]

i have yet to have it. As a home town GA boy, i always dreamt about Hammerin Hank Aaron and followed the Braves in the late 80's/early 90s, thats when i picked up card collecting.
At xmas, my Ma got a Sears baseball card collection for me and my brother to share.
It had all the greats. I think they are called immortals by TCMA or something. I still have it stored away in the closet in those 9-pocket binder pages.
Thats when we started collecting all sorts of cards and stored them in those long cardboard boxes. However we stopped when we made it to HighSchool.
Now that we have jobs and are able to afford some of the cards we always wanted to have...however i never got to the Hank Aaron RC yet, or yet find one centered for my needs.

[Exhibitman]

I was 9 the year he broke the record. Hank Aaron was THE MAN as far as I was concerned and this card and the subsequent Hank Aaron Special cards from the set were the first group of cards I can recall actively chasing.

Pulled this one out of a pack in 1976 in New York City. Slabbed it years later, obviously:



When I was 12 after we'd just moved from NYC to LA, my parents took our family to some friends' house. They had grown kids so I had nothing to do but when I mentioned that I collected cards, the mom said that they had a big box of them in the attic and I could take what I wanted. I spent the rest of the day gathering 1950s-1960s HOFers from the box, baseball and football. At the end when we were ready to go they just gave me the box. It was about 2' x 2' and mostly filled with cards randomly thrown in. I dumped the whole lot onto the floor of my room that evening and started sorting. When I reached the bottom of the pile I found one of these, which I later upgraded. Man, was I excited. Still a favorite card:



This has always been my favorite Clemente card, no reason, I just like it:



I realize I am posting a prewar card but I do love the colors on it, even more than the T206:

[JollyElm]

Adam, are you from New York? Because your Aaron cards reminded me that when I was young, you were either a Mets fan or a Yankees fan and either a Willie Mays fan or a Hank Aaron fan. Never both.

And that Clemente is awesome! Coupled with his 'in action' shot, that's the best pair of cards of a single player in a single set ever!!

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Adam, are you from New York? Because your Aaron cards reminded me that when I was young, you were either a Mets fan or a Yankees fan and either a Willie Mays fan or a Hank Aaron fan. Never both.

And that Clemente is awesome! Coupled with his 'in action' shot, that's the best pair of cards of a single player in a single set ever!!

Yep. I was a Yankees fan, hated the Mets. But I was 8 when Mays came back to NY so I was young enough to be happy anyway. They handed out posters at my school celebrating it and I had one on my closet door. Years later I found this pin with the same art:

[Exhibitman]

Also thankful for the 1952 Topps Zernial