How long you collected as a kid ?...

[Mark]

My earliest memories are from the Post cereal/ Jello cards from 1963, when I was 5. I remember cutting them out, and I still have a whole bunch of them. I also recall my dad buying me a cello pack of 63 Topps---I remember looking at the cards through the plastic and picking out the pack with a Pirate player in it. Still have them, too. I became an avid collector near the end of the 67 season, when I bought up lots of packs from the 7th series. From then on, I bought lots of Topps through 1974. In 1971, I became an eager collector of older cards, and picked up a lot of t-206's, Goudeys, and older Toppps cards through flea markets, the mail, and my first card convention (at the second annual midwest card collectors convention in Dearborn Mich). Then I dropped out until about 1991. It all came rushing back to me then.