What was the first baseball card you ever purchased?

[bbsports]

I started with 1964 Topps baseball in 5 cent packs & then bought a box for $1.25. My first auction by mail was a T206 Cobb red portrait for $5.00 from The Traders' Speaks magazine & a 1952 Topps Mantle for $36.00 in a SCD phone auction both in the early 70's.

[ATP]

First card I purchased from a dealer was a 1986 Fleer Jose Canseco rookie, for $10. I couldn't afford the Donruss one, at that time in 1987 they were going for $20. I remember the first week I had it, I took it out of the case and was admiring it. Laid it down on the ground in my room for a minute, and our cat (she was hefty) walked right over the top of it. Left a small crease and a couple light puncture marks from two claws...thankfully it was on the Eric Plunk half. Back in those days it still would have been considered near mint to my friends and I. Still have the card around somewhere.

[Bpm0014]

Neat story Paul. I was the one who won it. I'll take good care of it!

[E93]

In 1979 when I was in junior high and first discovered card shows and old cards I bought a 1960 Yogi Berra. Later that year I traded half my collection for a T206 Cobb/red.
JimB

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by Bpm0014

Neat story Paul. I was the one who won it. I'll take good care of it!

Excellent!!

[ejharrington]

1972 Topps Dave Kingman rookie card; $3.25 at Card Collectors Closet in Springfield, MA in 1984. At the time, it was a fairly sizable investment when you could buy about 10 packs of cards for that amount. I still own the card and all of my Kingman cards from the 70's-80's.

[tedzan]

Spring/Summer of 1947

My folks preferred BOND BREAD....so, my sister and I had fun carefully pulling out of the bread loaf packages these neat B/W BB cards. I still have them.

We were just 7 and 8 years old, respectively....and, I still recall how excited she and I would get, finding a Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams,
Stan Musial, or Phil Rizzuto (our nearby neighbor in Hillside, NJ).

My Father and my Uncle Chris owned restaurants, so we convinced them to by Bond Bread in order for us have a larger source of these BB cards (plus,
the four Boxers in the set).

Anyone of these cards were my very first Sportscard......











TED Z

[Theoldprofessor]

The first card I ever saw was a '48 Leaf Ruth. A kid down the block had bought a pack and opened them. Nobody wanted it because he wasn't a current player. As I recall, it went in the trash with the gum and the wrapper.


The first I ever bought was a T206 Schaefer

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[Theoldprofessor]

Never mind!

[pcoz]

Daryl that's great, lol!!!!!