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11-21-2024, 12:46 AM
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11-21-2024, 08:42 AM
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Most of you have me beat by a decade or more.
First collecting baseball thing- 67 or 68 Coke caps. Went to a party with my parents and the bottlecaps had pictures inside! Rounded up a few pockets full, but just before we went home mom made me toss them all. No way I was bringing home a bunch of dirty bottelcaps. (I was 4 or 5) Next a pack of 69 Topps, opened it with dad in the car and he remarked how one of the guys was pretty good. Reggie Jackson. Still have that card. Next pack was 71. Got a Danny Cater coin which was really cool to me. Still have that one too. Didn't really start collecting cards until late 73.
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11-21-2024, 11:21 AM
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Got my first cards in the spring edition of Dynamite Magazine through Scholastic - 1978 Topps Cecil Cooper, Tony Perez, Al Oliver and Darrell Porter. I was hooked from then on. A friend of mine said something like "you know you can packs of them in the store?" and it was all over.
Can still remember a few cards from my first pack - Rick Manning, Sparky Lyle RB, Luis Tiant, Jose Baez (had to ask my mom how pronounce that one) and George Hendrick. Last edited by deweyinthehall; 11-21-2024 at 11:23 AM.
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11-27-2024, 10:04 AM
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Western Ct probably had yankees or mets, I have a pretty good collection of Red Sox plus a few others. Slowly working on having the set from all Boston area bottling plants. Shes in a home now, and it's hard to tell just how much of anything she gets.
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11-27-2024, 11:12 PM
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I remember turning 8 and getting into cards thanks to 86 Topps football, Jim McMahon card in particular, my favorite player at the time. Didn't really start collecting baseball until 88 Topps. Those set designs really bring back lots of fond memories.
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11-28-2024, 01:37 AM
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posted this in similar thread back in 2017
1966 Mankato MN, Ben Franklin at the Tempo shopping center. Rode my bike the 2 1/2 blocks, pulled a Sandy Valdespino in the first pack, although it may not have been the first card.
I was thrilled to nab a Twin, coming off their World Series appearance, even if he wasn't exactly the straw that stirred the drink. This is my card, but obviously not the one pulled that day:  On the other hand, this one was pulled around that same time, and I still have it: 
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11-28-2024, 08:40 AM
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I collected only two sets as a kid -- 1958 Topps football and 1961 Topps baseball. I threw out the football cards after completing the set but still have the baseball cards, which I bought with my allowance at a Peoples drug store in the Wards Corner neighborhood of my hometown of Norfolk, Va.
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Going back to the present conversation, I believe my mother worked at a drugstore soda fountain: Newberrys. It was either in Walla Walla, or Spokane. I would need to look into that a bit more. Eventually she went to work at JCPenneys, and she met my father selling tires at the Penneys auto store. He set up a kegger just so that he could invite her. Sent from my SM-S926U using Tapatalk
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The amount and types of pills in my daily day/night medication pill box says loud and clear I'm no longer young, but given most of the talk on this thread I don't think I'm part of the old timers club yet. That's fine. I can wait.
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11-21-2024, 11:52 AM
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 Here are some pinbacks issued by a competing brand, Guy's Potato Chips of Kansas, in 1964:  And in 1965:  In any event, those pinbacks all look very cool. I'm sure I would have been buying Crane's or Guy's Potato Chips to get them as a kid had those brands been available in my neck of the woods. And had I done so then, I'd still be collecting them these days! 
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