What was the first baseball card you ever purchased?

[LKeeler]

I remember the first pack of cards I bought, 1988 Topps. The first individual card was a 1987 Topps Bo Jackson from a card shop in Salt Lake. My first prewar was a T206 portrait Keeler, and it happened to be trimmed which led me to learn the different levels of crappy grading companies!

[HRBAKER]

A pack of 1966 Topps @ IGA.

[Wildfireschulte]

I went to my first "show" in a mall in 1989 after having read about the Billy Ripkin Fleer ff card (about 25 years after I had grown out of buying packs of Topps ). I ended up buying a beautiful 1962 Lou Brock rookie card - not sure why I felt the need to be reminded every day about the worst trade in Cubs history. Us Cub fans can be masochists sometimes.

[t206blogcom]

My first pack of baseball cards was 1988 Topps. My Dad brought it home to me and I had no clue what they were. I was unimpressed, perhaps because it was 1988 Topps. He had to tell me that collecting cards was something kids did and that he collected when he was my age. Then I found out some of my older friends down the street collected them, so I then thought it was cool.

Ever since I was 9 or 10, I gravitated to the older cards. When I saved up my grass cutting money, I'd buy old beat up 50s commons from a local card shop. I remember liking the old Bowmans the best and my prized card was a 1954 Bowman Pee Wee Reese, that I still have today.

I bought my first T206 after riding my bike around 10-12 miles up to a local outlet mall. There used to be a 'shop' in the middle of the mall, one of those stand alone stands. I bought a Schlafly and thought it was the coolest card ever. A week later, I went back and bought a Bush. I still have these cards and will never sell them.