What was the first baseball card you ever purchased?

[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