Collection Reflection

[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.