Collection Reflection

[Lobo Aullando]

First Pack of Cards: '88 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: '92 Upper Deck McDonalds basketball
First T206: Christy Mathewson dark cap
First Card To Pay >$100 For: '55 Topps Jackie Robinson (although if you factor in three decades of inflation, it would be a '60 Topps Clemente)
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: W517 Babe Ruth
Most Memorable Trade: a couple of the then stars for an '89 Donruss Griffey, because no Mariner would ever be any good (Thanks, Kevin.)

[Cmvorce]

Great stories, guys. Thanks for sharing.

[butchie_t]

Updated tonight!

First Pack of Cards: 1967 Topps

First Set Completed by Hand: 1974 Topps

First T206: 29 Nov 2021 - Jim Delehanty with a Piedmont 150 back. Thanks to philliesfan

First Card To Pay >$100 For: 1969 Mickey Mantle White Letter

First Card To Pay >$1000 For: No chance. I got the Mantle WL a long time ago..

Most Memorable Trade: Have not had one yet.

[Cmvorce]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

Updated tonight!


[B]First T206: 29 Nov 2021 - Jim Delehanty with a Piedmont 150 back. Thanks to philliesfan

Congratulations! It’s a magical set.

[abothebear]

First Pack of Cards: 1984 Fleer baseball. My dad would bring them home from the Marathon station. I’d write my friends names on the back intending to give them out when I saw them next.
First Set Completed by Hand: 1934 Gold Medal Foods WS set.
First T206: Large Ass Herzog
First Card To Pay >$100 For: haven’t paid over a hundred. Highest I’ve spent is $85 on a Cochran’s noteboook cover and also on a Churchman Ruth (that one ended up being a good buy). I spent $127 on a lot of 30s R cards that included a Foxx, Dean, Cochrane, Cronin, and more.
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: can’t imagine being in a position to pay >$1000 for a card. But I’d like to find out.
Most Memorable Trade: in 88 or 89 I received stack of 86, 87, and 88 Fleer basketball including 86 Jordan sticker and Bird stickers, 87 Ewing, 86 Wilkins, 86 Bird, for a bag of popcorn.

[bbcard1]

First Pack of Cards: 1970 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1973 Topps
First T206: Snodgrass batting (for $1 from the old Card Collector's Company)
First Card To Pay >$100 For: low grade 1933 G Babe Ruth (still have it)
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: I think T206 Ohara...overpaid.
Most Memorable Trade: received: 1974 Jack Billingham for 1963 Pete Rose rookie...but I've made more bad trades than good, I think.

[yanks87]

First Pack of Cards: 1987 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1988 Topps, still have doubles if anyone is looking for some......
First T206: Home Run Baker
First Card To Pay >$100 For: 1985 McGwire Rookie, whoops
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: 1948 Leaf Jackie Robinson
Most Memorable Trade: Traded an expired parking pass for the student lot at Penn State for a 1960 Carl Yastrzemski (later graded a 6)
**Worst Trade** - T206 Mordecai Brown (I had 2) for a Sammy Sosa rookie card. it was 1998, everyone was doing it....right?!

[bnorth]

It is amazing how many remember all this. These are going to be best guesses for me.

First Pack of Cards: 1986 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: 1986 Topps and I still have it in the binder I put them in WAY back in the day. For vintage the only set I ever done was the 55 Bowman.
First T206: Some common that I bought from the BST section
First Card To Pay >$100 For: No idea what exact card but it was a Wade Boggs card in the mid/late 90s when they started doing the 1/1 cards.
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: 1952 Eddie Mathews
Most Memorable Trade: This one was fairly recently. One of my favorite guys in the hobby and very long time collecting friend is getting older and decided to sell everything. We have made countless trades over the years and he had a card I had been trying to trade him out of for many many years. I received a very rare 1989 Fleer Bill Ripken variation graded Gem 10. I sent him a couple cards I knew he could sell for way more and we were both very happy.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by abothebear

...First T206: Large Ass Herzog...

THE Large Ass Herzog? The unofficial board mascot?

[Nunzio11]

First Pack of Cards: 1980 Topps
First Set Completed by Hand: Have a couple in process...68 Topps is closest. Down to a Ryan rookie to complete my first set
First T206: Tom Downey Cincy
First Card To Pay >$100 For: T205 Matty
First Card To Pay >$1000 For: 1952 Bowman Mantle
Most Memorable Trade: nothing memorable yet