 |
|
||||||
 |
|
|||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
||||||
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#1
12-06-2024, 04:53 AM
|
|||
|
|||
Bought first cards in 1952
I bought my first cards from Johnny's grocery store around the corner in 1952. My sister and I played games with the cards and at the time I could name the player when only about a quarter inch on top was showing. Unfortunately, the high numbers never came to our town. The candy distributor who distributed the cards lived next door to us and when I was 11 I began working in his warehouse (garage) stacking boxes. When I was 12 my parents allowed me to buy two store boxes of 1954 cards. I collected some in 1955 and 1956, but stopped until I started collecting again in 1980. I finally completed my 1952 (ex Mantle), 1953, 1954, 1955, and 1956 sets.
|
|
#2
12-06-2024, 09:13 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
This is one of the few remaining online sites where I don't feel like an oldtimer. My first pack was 1986 Donruss at a Holiday Inn card show around opening day of the '86 season.
|
|
#3
12-06-2024, 10:23 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Did you then just happen to be at the Holiday Inn? Because it would be strange to attend a card show if you'd not already been buying cards.
__________________
That government governs best that governs least.
|
|
#4
12-06-2024, 11:06 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
|
|
#5
12-06-2024, 02:43 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Earliest memory is ripping packs of '51 Bowmans along side my like pals, all of us with with greasy dirty hands. No Mickey's but one kid got a Mays and we were all over him to see it. All of this took place under a Sycamore tree by the drug store where we had invested our hard earned allowances (child exploitation), which probably varied from .50 to 1$. Trading was the only way to go: There were no shows, breakers, magazines, e-commerce, dealers and, most of all, no grading companies.
Little did we know the next year the neighborhood would be rocked by those beautiful '52 Topps cards. Interest in the '52 Bowmans wained, and I remember the druggist offered his surplus at the end of the season for .01 a pack. The next year came those beautiful '53 Bowman photographs to challenge Topps but they cost so much to produce it put Bowman into a declining spiral. 0)
|
|
#6
12-10-2024, 01:34 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
That was the same year this movie came out! .
__________________
Leon Luckey www.luckeycards.com Last edited by Leon; 01-04-2025 at 08:31 AM.
|
 |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Oldtimers contact help needed | JEFFV96MASTERS | Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions | 2 | 10-08-2010 06:39 PM |
| New Board? | Archive | Postwar Baseball Cards Forum (Pre-1980) | 3 | 04-11-2009 07:36 PM |
| Need some help from Seattle oldtimers | Archive | Postwar Baseball Cards Forum (Pre-1980) | 7 | 07-03-2008 09:40 AM |
| Can Anyone Identify These Braves Oldtimers? | Archive | Net54baseball Sports (Primarily) Vintage Memorabilia Forum incl. Game Used | 14 | 02-20-2008 09:48 PM |
| Hi. New on the board. | Archive | Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions | 2 | 07-17-2004 04:29 PM |
Hybrid Mode
