If you could open a box...

[Vintagevault13]

Definitely a high # 1952 box. For nostalgia reasons, I would love to open a box of 1975's. Lots of great memories of my grandmother buying me these when I was 9 years old.

[Samsdaddy]

First, any series from 1965 Topps as that is my all time favorite set.

Second, 1975 Topps as it is the first year I started collecting cards and my favorite set from the 1970's.

[NateMack]

I am going for the 54 Topps pack!

Followed by 58 Topps and 55 Topps!

I love all those 50's Topps years though!!!!

[pawpawdiv9]

Shhoo! I was sweating that this was not about opening a box of TWINKIES 20 or 30 yrs later.

Since i am partial to the Mick.. I love the looks of the 51 Bowman..heck almost any Bowman.
Next to that is the 52 of course.
Close behind...maybe the 56.

[brian1961]

Too many to name, but one that I'd particularly enjoy would be a box of 1962 Topps Civil War News. I really got in to those cards back then. Second might be a box of 1961 Topps Baseball 7th Series high numbers. As a kid, I only got one pack of those. Maybe because I only got the one pack, I remember that occasion. It was a rainy, cool early fall night in Skokie, Illinois. I was with my Dad, whom I miss so much, and we stopped at a Wahlgreen's. --Brian Powell

[stlcardsfan]

Originally Posted by brian1961

Too many to name, but one that I would particularly enjoy would be a box of 1962 Topps Civil War News. I really enjoyed those cards back then. Second might be a box of 1961 Topps Baseball 7th Series high numbers. As a kid, I only got one pack of those. Maybe because I only got the one pack, I remember that occasion. It was a rainy, cool early fall night in Skokie, Illinois. I was with my Dad, whom I miss so much, and we stopped at a Wahlgreen's. --Brian Powell

Neat story, Brian. Do you remember the cards in that 7th series '61 pack? Mantle AS?

[brian1961]

STLCARDSFAN, Yes, the Mickey Mantle All-Star WAS one of the five cards. I was 7 years old and thrilled to pieces that I got Mickey! Jim Gentile was another, and a Chicago Cubs pitcher that did not do too much in the majors. The card had a bright yellow background. Thanks for asking. Have a great day, buddy. --Brian Powell

PS -----As you are probably well aware, numbers 587 and 588 were never issued in 1961. I have wondered, given the extreme popularity and interest at that moment in time concerning Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle gunning for Ruth's single season HR record, whether Topps chose to double-print the M&M boys' All-Star cards. This would make perfect sense. What would have made even BETTER sense---Topps doing a card of the dual as they had done periodically throughout the 1961 set. Title it simply, "M&M Boys". Preferably on a horizontally-styled card. What a dream card!!!!!!!!!!! THIS is the exact type of card Topps should do for a National Convention giveaway. I'd fight to get one of those! If, that is, they do a good job of it. OH TOPPS PERSONNEL, ARE YOU LISTENING? TAKE THIS AS A STRONG HINT and a SUGGESTION FROM SOMEONE WHO PAYS ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU OFFER AT THE NATIONAL!

Back in the early 90s a gentleman did that very thing. He took a stunning photo of the pair and fashioned a 1963 Topps-looking card. Superb work. But the hobby came down on him in a very disturbing fashion, as I recall reading in Sports Collectors Digest. He didn't charge that much for it, either. This was about the time when the powers that be started investigating unlicensed cards, and making those individuals stop doing so, while sometimes imposing uncomfortable penalties.

Eventually, I bought one on eBay. I LOVE IT!!!!!!

Did you ever strike a deal on the 1955 Rawlings Stan Musial card set on that glove box flap?

--Brian Powell

[hcv123]

Originally Posted by Vintagevault13

Definitely a high # 1952 box. For nostalgia reasons, I would love to open a box of 1975's. Lots of great memories of my grandmother buying me these when I was 9 years old.

My Grandmother bought me the 1975's too! We used to go to a variety store and they had hundreds of racks in a table top display - I used to look through them to pick out my favorite players on top or bottom when I could find them and my Grandma would buy them for me -what a wonderful warm memory!

[Vintagevault13]

Originally Posted by hcv123

My Grandmother bought me the 1975's too! We used to go to a variety store and they had hundreds of racks in a table top display - I used to look through them to pick out my favorite players on top or bottom when I could find them and my Grandma would buy them for me -what a wonderful warm memory!

Great memories. My grandmother would also take me to a variety store, Woolworth's, and I would get some cards and a ice cream sundae at their soda shop. The memories evoked by card collecting is what makes our hobby so great.

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by Vintagevault13

Great memories. My grandmother would also take me to a variety store, Woolworth's, and I would get some cards and a ice cream sundae at their soda shop. The memories evoked by card collecting is what makes our hobby so great.

Well said Ed!