What is the first Baseball Card or Set you Remember?

[Bigdaddy]

1971, though I don't remember them until the mid 70's when my next door neighbor found a stack of them in his barn and divided them up three ways between me, him and another buddy. I ended up with Mays, though all of them were already well worn.

The first cards I remember buying new were 1977 Topps baseball.

[CurtisFlood]

I'm pretty sure something from the 1960 Topps Set. First cards I really remember were a 1961 Musial, a 1952 Topps Willie Mays and 52 Monte Irvin given to me by a kid so racist he did not want any black players in his collection. Looking back he deserved the hit he took on his collection.


I vaguely remember having a few high number 1961 Topps, specifically Ken Boyer and Charlie James.

[Kawika]

George: Those cut-out cards are really cool. Glad you kept 'em. I'm tempted to take a scissors to my '53 Topps set now. I was kid in the 'fifties so saw some of those ballplayers at Yankee Stadium.

I have a clear memory of my first exposure to baseball cards. I was given a handful, maybe 5 or 6 cards, a mix of '54s and '55s. Distinctly remember a '54 Topps Ernie Banks - I was mesmerized on the spot. By 1957 I was hooked.

All the cards, the Superboy comics and my coonskin cap are presently residing in the Pleistocene layer. I bought this card as a tribute to a boyhood icon.

[NiceDocter]

I remember clearly buying 2 Topps hanging Rack Packs with three packets of cards in cellophane (sp?) .... I hand picked them to get the ones with Koufax showing on one and Mantle and Maris on the other! Man if only I hadnt cracked em open...............got em at the Super Giant in the White Oak, Maryland shopping center during our weekly trip to the grocery store as a family.

[sinoth23]

1979 Burger King Yanks. Remember going each Sat with my grandfather and picking up a few of those packs.

[Republicaninmass]

1986 topps. I remember finding some old packs once from 1985 in a store and was amazed they were still unopened

[kmac32]

1969 Topps