'What's the most inexpensive vintage card you still have in your collection?'

[the 'stache]

Don Money. 99 cents!

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by the 'stache

Don Money. 99 cents!

Bill, there's no need to discuss presidential politics in this thread!

[ajquigs]

I always liked this card and the piece of history it captures in the movement toward free agency. I display it as part of my main collection. It cost less than $2.

[bwbc917]

Growing up I used to save my money all winter for when the first series of cards would come out. I'd go to the store and buy a WHOLE box for $1.20 in 1959-1962. I know I still have some of these cards, although I couldn't tell which ones. My cost..... a penny each.

Of course if I were really smart (and had a crystal ball) I wouldva saved my grass cutting money and bought boxes of 1961 7th series with all the All-Stars.

[packs]

Spent about $30 on this bad boy. Worth every penny:

[Exhibitman]

Paid $12 for this when I was a kid; slabbed it years later, of course

[steve B]

Plenty of cheap stuff in my collection.

48 Bowman FB - Maybe 8 of them, free! Trash picked them walking home from the local card shop in I think 78 or 79. Looked down as I walked past and there was a plastic page with a few cards in it. (Yes, I checked with the shop to see if someone has swiped them from the shop) Beaters, but for the price...And they came with a free plastic page too.

First T206 was a Beckley Polar bear that was badly torn and taped together 20 cents.

Plus what ever I got in packs from 69- whenever all of those would be between 1 and 2 cents.

Steve B

[kkkkandp]

Originally Posted by packs

Spent about $30 on this bad boy. Worth every penny

That pose of Big Klu is one of my favorite baseball cards of all time!

[RCMcKenzie]

Stumbled upon this 1957 Topps Eddie Robinson over the weekend while doing some Spring cleaning. I've had this card since the 70's, must have been in a multi-card trade back then. Anyway, Robinson is still going at 95 and wrote a book about MLB front offices from what I saw today...

[Leon]

The 20-20 hindsight from our childhood, with respect to cards, would have been great. I know I had piles of late 60s and very early 70s cards strewn everywhere. I wish I had kept some. I sold everything for 50 bucks to the kid I got Bar Mitzvahed with, he was the smart one obviously.

Originally Posted by bwbc917

Growing up I used to save my money all winter for when the first series of cards would come out. I'd go to the store and buy a WHOLE box for $1.20 in 1959-1962. I know I still have some of these cards, although I couldn't tell which ones. My cost..... a penny each.

Of course if I were really smart (and had a crystal ball) I wouldva saved my grass cutting money and bought boxes of 1961 7th series with all the All-Stars.

[ValKehl]

Chris, your post reminded me that I have lots of 1955-1960 cards that cost me a penny when I was a youngster. Fortunately, after I left home, got married, and started a family, Mom called me out of the blue one day 9n the early 1970's to say she had come across a couple of boxes of my childhood baseball cards and was about to toss them, but decided to first ask me if I happened to want them. Thinking that my rug rats might collect cards one day, I asked her to hold them until I next visited. It never entered my mind that I might start collecting again one day (my boys never got interested). This is the only card from my youth that I happen to have already scanned (and graded) - the rest of them are raw. The only reason I recently got this one graded is to use it as trade bait, because to me, it is one of the ugliest Mantle cards ever produced - I realize that most collectors think otherwise!
Val