Collection Reflection

[Snapolit1]

I don’t know how you guys can remember the first pack of baseball cards you ever bought. I can’t remember what I ordered for dinner last Friday.

[rjackson44]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I don’t know how you guys can remember the first pack of baseball cards you ever bought. I can’t remember what I ordered for dinner last Friday.

Hi steve lol 66 orr last big purchase

[brob28]

First Pack of Cards: 1974 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1956 Topps
First T206: Ty Cobb - Red Portrait
First Card To Pay >$100 For: either 1956 Mantle or Red Cobby, can't remember which was first.
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: T206 Nap Lajoie (w/bat) EPDG SCG 60
Most Memorable Trade: Nothing really sticks out: as a kid I traded a '77 Brett for a '75 Aaron which at the time seemed like the steal of the century.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I don’t know how you guys can remember the first pack of baseball cards you ever bought. I can’t remember what I ordered for dinner last Friday.

I remember getting those packs of cards like it was yesterday. Mark Terry, Chuck White and Edwin Jaffe were my closest pals. They were buying and collecting cards starting in 1966, third grade in school. My sister Linda became a "stewardess" for Delta Air Lines and got herself based or assigned to Dallas. My dad and I made a field trip down there in 1967 to see how she was doing. One day she and I went to Safeway, and lo and behold, there at the checkouts, Topps cards. I remember she let me get 6 packs. One of those cards I vividly remember, Jim Barbieri of the Dodgers, swinging a bat with the camera seemingly mounted on the end of the bat! That same trip I saw the outside of the Cotton Bowl, and the inside of 6 Flags Over Texas. Those 6 initial packs of cards lead to a complete set, and many, many duplicates of most, 1967 Topps. Also 1968, 1969, and 1970. My folks let me get one of those plastic (mine was green) two door lockers with shelves for team sets in each league. That's where my 1967 complete set went. All the others went into many shoe boxes.

[commishbob]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I don’t know how you guys can remember the first pack of baseball cards you ever bought. I can’t remember what I ordered for dinner last Friday.

I remember getting my first packs in my Easter basket in 1959. I'd first seen cards the year before, some 58 Topps owned by a kid down the block and I was hooked. I remember getting an Albie Pearson in one of those Easter packs. I got packs for every holiday and birthday after that for quite a few years.

[BuzzD]

first pack: 1955 Bowman
first set completed: 1978 Topps
first T206: Keeler portrait
first card > $100: W551 Ruth
first card >$1000: W600 Chesbro

[Harford20]

First Pack of Cards: 1975 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1987 Topps (nearly finished the 1981 Fleer set from packs in 1981, but actually didn't finish it until 1989)
First T206: Nap Lajoie, Throwing. Still have it. PSA5
First Card To Pay >$100 For: T206 Cy Young Portrait. Paid $150 at a show in Silver Spring in 1991. Still have that card too, PSA2
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: 1954 Wilson Franks Ted Williams

Dave

[vansaad]

First Pack of Cards: 1987 Topps or 1987 Donruss

First Set Completed by Hand: 1987 Topps

First T206: group of commons, with Larry Doyle portrait being my favorite

First Card To Pay >$100 For: T206 Mordecai Brown (Tolstoi)

First Card To Pay >$1000 For: T206 Christy Mathewson dark cap

[iwantitiwinit]

first pack: 1967 Topps Baseball
first set completed: 1948 Bowman baseball
first T206: Hannifan
first card > $100: 1954 Topps Jackie Robinson -raw
first card >$1000: T206 Red Cobb in PSA 5 thru REA in 2010 I think I paid $1800 for it.

[Tere1071]

First Pack of Cards: 1969 Topps Baseball

First Set Completed by Hand: 1974 Topps

First T-206: Never

First Card to Pay <100: 1951 Topps Current All-Star Yogi Berra (1979)

First Card to Pay <1,000: 1953 Bowman Color PSA 4 Mickey Mantle #59 (2020)

Memorable Trade(s): 1983- I traded an autographed Babe Ruth baseball and a Star Sticker Salesman sample flipbook for a 1968 3D Roberto Clemente. I got the worse end of the trade but I had to have that Clemente as he was, and still is, one of my heroes.

1983 again: I traded a new satin Dodgers Jacket for a circa 1951 home St. Louis Browns jersey. It came from a gentleman who received it as a gift from one of his customers on his paper route as a boy. He made the offer and with the permission of the store owner, I bought the Dodgers jacket at the retail price and completed the trade. I got the better end of that one.

[hcv123]

First pack: 1973 Topps from Jackie's coffee shop or the ice cream man
First set completed by hand: 1978 Topps - Billy Almon was the last card
First T206: Some commons I don't remember that I sold in the 90's
First card to pay >$100: Just don't remember ($48 felt like $1,000,000 back around 1980 for my first Clemente rookie)
First card to pay >$1000: again I don't remember, but I'll go with $800 for a 1967 Venezuelan Clemente (currently 1 of 2 highest graded PSA 5's) in the 90's.
Most memorable trade: TRading a shoebox full of 1972 (including Carew) and 1973 cards including 72 high numbers for a comic book I do not remember back in the 80's at a comic book show.

[clydepepper]

[QUOTE=Snapolit1;2167575]I don’t know how you guys can remember the first pack of baseball cards you ever bought. I can’t remember what I ordered for dinner last Friday.[/QUOTE]



Me too...although, I do remember that my first pack was 1964 Topps

...and we ate a lot of POST Cereals back then, too.




Most memorable deal: purchased a binder of 268 T206 cards and several other early issues for $1,500 sometime between 1987 and 1989.

resold most of them for around 4K. Kept one Cobb and several commons...since resold as well.




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