What was the first baseball card you ever purchased?

[novakjr]

Wow! This may be too far back to remember accurately.

I know my first pack, was 1986 Topps from the concession stand at tee-ball. The first card I ever traded for, was probably 1987 Topps Bo Jackson.. The first card I bought was probably something Bo related(just speculative, based on fuzzy memory), at the old card shop on the square in Chardon, Ohio. While the first one I can remember having to get an advance on my allowance was, I think the Select Young Stars Drew Bledsoe(was like $50 at the time).. The first Baseball card that I really saved for was the '82 Topps Ripken. And the first one when I was at working age, and actually spending my adult, hard-earned money on was the '82 traded Ripken(coincidentally, I wasn't actively collecting at the time, just really always wanted the card). And my first purchase upon returning to the hobby(the one that finally sucked me back in for good) was a beat to shit t206 Harry Krause(pitching)...

[Jay Wolt]

Been buying cards out of packs since the late 60's. I remember my 1st T206 from Card Coll Co in NYC
through a hobby paper I bought a Marquard portrait listed as NM. It arrived being vg/ex at best. It cost maybe $8 so it wasn't worth making a stink over it.
Musta been in the late 70's

[Al C.risafulli]

My first baseball cards were packs of 1977 Topps. I don't remember the first card, obviously, but I remember there was a Rod Carew in the pack, and I thought he was the greatest player in the game. I immediately fell in love with the card.

My first vintage card was a T206 Rube Waddell portrait. I bought it for a dollar at a store called Dollars and Sense in Ridgewood, NJ. My grandfather had told me about Waddell, and I couldn't wait to show him the card. That began a long tradition of me buying vintage cards of players my grandfather told me about.

I still have the Waddell. I bought it in about 1980. It's my most valuable card.

[richardcards]

first single card purchased from baseball card store 1985
1963 Topps burgess for 25 cents

[25801wv]

In 1987 I bought a 1985 Topps McGwire for $20 and I also bought a M&M Panel with Canseco & Dale Murphy (I think) for about a couple of bucks around the same time.

[icollectDCsports]

The first second-hand cards I ever purchased were through the mail from Gar Miller, probably around 1977 or 1978. A late 60s Don Drysdale card and 2 Senators team cards from the 50s. Wish vintage cards could still be purchased at those prices.

[glynparson]

Gil Hodges in 1979.

[callou2131]

In 1987 I was 12. had never collected cards or bought packs but I walked into a shop that was almost all comics (Whick I never collected either) and saw a 1982 Donruss Ripken in the case for $8. Dont know why I bought it but I did. Ripken seems to be a main theme here in card collecting.

[VoodooChild]

The summer of '85 when I was 10 yrs. old was when I made my first trip to a card store. I had $10 and bought a '71 Clemente, a '68 Ernie Banks, and a '78 Cello pack with Rollie Fingers in top. I still have them.

My first Pre-war card was a T206 Oakes that I bought a little over a year ago.

[ParisianJohn]

The first cards I bought with my own money were 1986 Sportflics when I was ten or eleven. I think they had three player cards and two mini team cards in each pack. I believe the packs were like $3 a pop. Some day I'll get my money back on that investment

Actually, I still have them and like them, though they are a little gimmicky. They've held their condition much better than my junk wax cards of that era. I also had vey good luck buying them, in that the entire set was only 200 player cards, I bought 57 cards, and I only pulled two doubles (Joe Carter and Paul Molitor).

The first individual card I bought was a T205 Eddie Collins - the red one with his mouth closed. I grew up in Philadelphia, and when I was blowing off assigned readings from school I would often read of the old championship Mack Men teams and that drew me to buy that card a few years later.

[Rich Klein]

My first pack was in 1967 -- I bought ONE high number pack and then started buying for real with 3rd series in 68

About the time I was 13, I went to Sports Corner and bought a few cards among which were a beat up 1955 Jackie Robinson and a T206 McGinnity.

So one of each in the modern and the old to begin with single cards.

I own neither of these cards any more

Rich

I bought a 1968 Mantle at a High School Flea Market in the mid 70's for .02 cents