What was the card that started it for you?

Kurri17 · #1 05-31-2017, 04:54 PM

Good topic. The very first card I remember getting was a 1971 Topps Dick Green, I lived in a small town in KY. Oddly enough, less than a year later we moved to California and I fell in love with the A's (so I love the Reggie card above) as they started their dynasty run. The 1972 season was the first time I was living and dying by a team, I was eight.

bnorth · #2 05-31-2017, 05:23 PM

For me it was the 1983 Topps Wade Boggs rookie card. Back in the day it actually took me a few months to track one down. I still have that card.

REGGIE206 · #3 05-31-2017, 05:49 PM

TheNightmanCometh · #4 05-31-2017, 06:24 PM

I thought, surely, there has to be better cards than this! And that's how an obsession was born.

#5 05-31-2017, 06:26 PM

Pete Rose

ajquigs · #6 05-31-2017, 07:53 PM

This one has always been my favorite. I finally got it about two years ago, but I wanted it for about 35 years.

irv · #7 05-31-2017, 08:34 PM

I collected hockey cards as a kid but gave up collecting for years and years until my Father gave me these back in the early 90's.

Needless to say, I went from collecting hockey cards at a young age to collecting baseball at a much older age.

geosluggo · #8 06-01-2017, 08:11 AM

When I became a card addict as a 7-year-old in 1972, the Vida Blue In Action card was the first object of my abject covetousness. I also discovered older cards that year through friends with older brothers. I distinctly remember acquiring a 1966 Mantle and other '66s from a fellow second grader with a brother in junior high school. I got the '69 Bench about the same time in a box of cards from a kid who got them from his brother, didn't care about them, and gave them to me when I let him ride my bike. After that, I was obsessed not only with ripping open new packs of cards but finding older stuff, mainly by targeting neighborhood kids who were entering their teen years and giving up the hobby. The Mantle card here is the same one I acquired 45 years ago; I'm pretty sure the Blue card is as well.

BillP · #9 08-21-2018, 07:28 PM

For me back in 1983 it was the 67 set and probably the seaver card in particular. After I collect that set I went after 66 and it was the Perry and Clarke cards.

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