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Which states are psa set registry participants from?

NickyNicky Posts: 18
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I enjoy reading the posts and have learned a lot about the hobby! I was wondering from what states you are all from and what year did you start collecting? I am from Rhode Island and have been collecting cards since 1971 ! I was 5 years old at the time and my parents would buy me a pack each week from the grocery store!
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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    i stay in an inebriated state most of the time..

    but florida is my home..
    ·p_A·
  • gregm13gregm13 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭
    Chicago, IL - and my first card was a 1982 Topps Mike Squires which a friend of mine gave to me. Whenever I open a 1982 Topps pack, I always look to see whether a Squires is in the pack!!

    Now I'm mostly into football and my first football cards were packs of 1981 football that I bought from a local deli in 1983 or so. I still remember that they were laying at the bottom of my toy chest image

    Regards,

    Greg M.
    Collecting vintage auto'd fb cards and Dan Marino cards!!

    References:
    Onlychild, Ahmanfan, fabfrank, wufdude, jradke, Reese, Jasp, thenavarro
    E-Bay id: greg_n_meg
  • VirtualizardVirtualizard Posts: 1,936 ✭✭


    << <i>i stay in an inebriated state most of the time..

    but florida is my home.. >>



    Me too ... on both! image

    JEB.
  • CubfanCubfan Posts: 1,545
    Illinois. I remember my first pack being a pack of Topps 1966 Baseball.
  • jsnpritchettjsnpritchett Posts: 75
    I live in Santa Monica, CA now, but I'm originally from a small town in Georgia. Started collecting in 1981. My first cards were 1981 Donruss, hence my drive to find all the California Angels from that set in PSA 9 or better! image

    Jason
  • Kid4hof03Kid4hof03 Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am from Richmond, VA but have been in New Jersey for 10 years now. My first cards were 1979 football, got a Terry Bradshaw in my first pack.

    Abe
    Collecting anything and everything relating to Roger Staubach
  • TroyTroy Posts: 70
    I live in Virginia but I am from Pennsylvania originally. 1980 Topps Baseball was my first pack, I was 4.
    looking for Mantle,Munson,Big Klu
  • metalmike20metalmike20 Posts: 165
    I'm from Geneva, OH. My first cards were 84 topps baseball, I remember I had a Darryl Strawberry rookie I had pulled and in the late 80's it was the center piece of my collection. Boy, have times changed!!!!

    Mike
  • bengineno9bengineno9 Posts: 597
    Wichita, KS. Started collecting after getting my first pack of 87 Topps after a little league game.

    Ben


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  • BasiloneBasilone Posts: 2,492 ✭✭
    Cleveland/Akron Suburbs (Ohio)

    I received my first pack of cards at age 6 (1977 Topps)...but started buying packs on my own with 1979 Topps Football (rack packs from Kay-Bee Toy Store at the mall).
  • marinermariner Posts: 2,602 ✭✭✭✭
    Carefree, AZ....

    Collected as a kid from 1959-1966, then starting collecting as an adult in 1978.
    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • GangstaJaysonGangstaJayson Posts: 223 ✭✭
    Ashtabula, Ohio
    -- Remember, don't do drugs, have unprotected sex, or kill anyone...leave that stuff to me.

  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Me too ... on both! image

    JEB. >>



    you're a bit south of me.. =)
    ·p_A·
  • rugbymarinerugbymarine Posts: 421 ✭✭✭✭
    Baltimore, MD

    1993 Topps was the first pack I remember.
    My Sets: Frank Robinson - Brooks Robinson - Al Kaline
  • sjeanblancsjeanblanc Posts: 379 ✭
    I live in Illinois and work in Wisconsin, the first pack of cards that I bought with my own money was in 1972 and I got a Roberto Clemente, which three years ago PSA graded as a Mint 9. Which I had to sell last year, for $375. I really hated getting rid of that card. image

    Scott Jeanblanc
    jeanblanc@iconnect.net
    Ebay UserId: sjeanblanc
    -----------------------------------------
    Collecting Nolan Ryan cards (68-94)
  • riccaboniriccaboni Posts: 454 ✭
    I am from good old Allentown, Pennsylvania.

    -Ian
  • AlanAllenAlanAllen Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭
    Born in Michigan, grew up in Ohio, now in California. First pack of cards was 1980 Topps football.

    Joe
    No such details will spoil my plans...
  • lamontcarterlamontcarter Posts: 748 ✭✭✭
    Philly, PA and my first baseball card was a 79 Topps Joe Zdeb.
  • JonBJonB Posts: 495 ✭
    am i the first to say TEXAS?
  • onegauchoonegaucho Posts: 650 ✭
    San Diego, CA.

    First packs I got as a kid were 81 Fleer and 82 Topps - I always thought it was cool that it included the players' autographs on the cards!
  • nearmintnearmint Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭
    I'm from Crivitz, Wisconsin, pop 996. (Sa-lute!) My first cards were 1969 Topps football cards. I was looking for Pete Banaszak's card; he's also from Crivitz.

    Mike
    Nearmint's Vintage Football Cards
    Vintage Football Card Gallery
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    I live in the People's Republic of California and grew up on Mercer Island, WA. My first pack was a pack of 1969 Topps baseball.
  • purelyPSApurelyPSA Posts: 712 ✭✭
    I don't feel it's my place to let my city and state become widely known. Sorry, but I refuse to participate in the location contest. However, I will divulge that my first pack was a '79 Topps FB one.
  • LuxuryWinesLuxuryWines Posts: 737 ✭
    I grew up in NY but now live in NJ (after numerous stops up and down the East Coast).....
    Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... it's about learning to dance in the rain.
  • BugOnTheRugBugOnTheRug Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭
    hmmm..................


    << <i>I don't feel it's my place to let my city and state become widely known. Sorry, but I refuse to participate in the location contest. >>


    uh..........ok......................



    << <i>Steve Creason
    Bellevue NE >>


    uh.............now you lost me.............

    BOTR
    ps) N. CA by way of W. PA - 1967T HIGH NUMBERS - 7TH SERIES!!!!!!!
  • liffeystynxliffeystynx Posts: 206
    State: Other (i.e. Ireland)

    ...but thanks to three-and-a-half glorious years in NYC ....

    First cards: Topps Baseball 1967 - first card I have a clear memory of is Manny Mota
    Baseball HOF Autographs
    Topps Baseball 1967
    Mike Payne's 300 Great Cards
    MVPs in their MVP years
    and T206???
  • carkimcarkim Posts: 1,166 ✭✭
    Ohio...First pack was a 1974 Topps Baseball, pulled a Johnny Bench card.
  • rbeatonrbeaton Posts: 631 ✭
    Been in Maryland all my life. First pack was a 75 football rack.

    Robert
    Looking for:
    Any high grade OPC Jim Palmer
    High grade Redskins (pre 1980)
  • JasP24JasP24 Posts: 4,645 ✭✭✭
    Currently living in Northern VA/DC Metro area, moving to Dallas in October. Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida.

    First pack of cards 1979 Topps Football...First completed set 1981 Topps Football...I can still remember that LAST card i needed to complete my set...Uwe Von Schamann, kicker for the Dolphins..I bet I bought 50 packs just trying to find that last card...No local card shops and no ebay back then...lol

    Jason
    I'm here to question, not to inspire or build up. To live how I want, as I see fit,
    according to my values and my needs. Nothing holds dominion over me, I stand alone as the ruler of my life.
  • Hockeybonkers99Hockeybonkers99 Posts: 115
    Hamilton,Ontario

    First pack my dad brought home from the corner store, 79-80 OPC hockey, for some reason the Gretzky rookie made a better "motorcycle" sound in my bike spokes then the rest of them.

    Hockeybonkers.

    hockeybonkers@yahoo.ca
  • GolfcollectorGolfcollector Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭
    There is no place like Nebraska.............
    Dave Johnson- Big Red Country-Nebraska
    Collector of Vintage Golf cards! Let me know what you might have.
  • shouldabeena10shouldabeena10 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭
    Also from the Northern VA / DC metro area. Via VA Beach, PA, CA, OH, DE, ... finally moved to Pasadena, Maryland 12 years ago ... and I can't seem to escape.

    First cards were probably "1969 ish" Football ... (1st cards I really remember owning)

    Mike
    "Vintage Football Cards" A private Facebook Group of 4000 members, for vintage football card trading, sales & auctions. https://facebook.com/groups/vintagefootball/
  • fsjeterfsjeter Posts: 1,390
    Las Vegas, NV

    1st pack was a '73 Topps Baseball (pulled a Carleton Fisk and I still have that card).

    Scott
    Registry Sets:
    T-205 Gold PSA 4 & up
    1967 Topps BB PSA 8 & up
    1975 Topps BB PSA 9 & up
    1959 Topps FB PSA 8 & up
    1976 Topps FB PSA 9 & up
    1981 Topps FB PSA 10
    1976-77 Topps BK PSA 9 & up
    1988-89 Fleer BK PSA 10
    3,000 Hit Club RC PSA 5 & Up

    My Sets
  • purelyPSApurelyPSA Posts: 712 ✭✭
    BOTR - don't take things so seriously. As you see my city and state in the tagline, I say, I say, my post was a JOKE, son.

    But for those who don't get it, I live in Bellevue, Nebraska.
  • RepublicaninMassRepublicaninMass Posts: 255 ✭
    Boston, MA. First pack 1986 Topps, pulled the Clemens 2nd year card. The one where is his remarkably sweaty. Since then I was hooked.
  • BugOnTheRugBugOnTheRug Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭


    << <i>BOTR - don't take things so seriously. As you see my city and state in the tagline, I say, I say, my post was a JOKE, son. >>


    HOW CAN YOU JOKE AT A TIME LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS THE PSA BOARDS??????????????????????
    DO YOU REALIZE THAT PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD CAN VIEW THESE THREADS???????????????

    ibbbity,ibbbity,uh ibbity...............that's all folks!!!!

    BOTR
  • cardfan07cardfan07 Posts: 680 ✭✭
    Minneapolis.
    I remember bugging family members for dollar bills when I was a kid. 79 and 80 Topps baseball packs were 25 cents each. Those were the days...
    Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Tom Seaver, Mike Schmidt, George Brett, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock player collector
  • NickyNicky Posts: 18
    My best card collecting memories were in 1974 opening baseball wax packs praying to get the #1 Hank Aaron card to have bragging rights in the neighborhood! Those were the days!
  • onlychildonlychild Posts: 312 ✭
    Los Angeles County, California

    I started collecting baseball cards in 1973 while playing little league. Stopped in 1976. Sold my ratty old collection in 82 to buy my wedding rings. Started up again 87, after leaving the military. Pulled a Canseco rookie with that first come-back pack and was hooked again. Stopped once more when the insert craze started. Went hot and cold since but managed to collect every set made in the 1980's.

    Kevin
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,620 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Massachusetts......I started collecting in 1984 quit in 1990, sold everything. Febuary 2003 I walked into a magazine/cigar store and saw my first copy of SMR...a week later I have been hooked ever since.
  • dudedude Posts: 1,454 ✭✭
    Originally from Western Pennsylvania, now in Texas. My first sports pack was 1967 Topps Baseball first series. I had bought non-sports packs two or threes years earlier such as James Bond, the Beatles, Gilligan's Island and King Kong.
  • AISAVDBBALLINPHILLYAISAVDBBALLINPHILLY Posts: 249
    Easton, PA is where I was born and lived about half my 40 years. I remember buying '73 topps baseball packs and wacky packs when I first started the habit, er hobby. Kept some in rubber bands, flipped some, and clothespinned others to the back fork of my bike to rub against the spokes and make it sound like a motorcycle. Sold all for peanuts at about 13 and then started back up again in 1991 when I attended University of Georgia for grad school.

    Gooooooo Dawgs!!!! Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.

    John
    Lawrence Taylor #1 Basic/Master
    1993 Pro Set Power All-Power-Defense Gold #1
  • coachhcoachh Posts: 529 ✭
    St Louis Missouri here. Lived in Illinois for my 1st 21 years then Missouri for the last 22.
  • TipemTipem Posts: 881 ✭




    Fernandina Beach,Florida (Amelia Island) Far NE corner of Florida,

    1968 wax


    Vic
    Please be kind to me. Even though I'm now a former postal employee, I'm still capable of snapping at any time.
  • jparchitectusjparchitectus Posts: 68
    NY
    Always looking for 1968 Topps PSA 8's and 1960 Topps PSA 7's.


    JPARCHITECTUS


    image
  • baseballjeffbaseballjeff Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭
    First pack, 1987 Topps. And I am from bueatiful Southeast Alaska.

    Jeff
  • minibeersminibeers Posts: 216 ✭
    Raised in southern cal, now in east tennessee. 1st pack: 1974 Baseball. I remember the gum more than the cards.
    1966T, 1971T, 1972T raw and in 8s
    1963T Dodgers in 8s
    Pre-war Brooklyn 5s or higher
  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭
    Tennessee...first pack i can remember was 77t Football cello pack in a 7/11 store and it had a seahawks checklist and jim zorn....i was 8 and still remember that pink card on the front..LOL


    Thanks,

    David (LD_Ferg)



    1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
  • RobERobE Posts: 1,160 ✭✭
    CT

    I believe (at the age of 5) 75 was the first pack.

    The Reds beat the Red Sox.(Yankee country was thrilled)

    Then...

    76 - The Reds beat the Yankees.(Botson fans gave it all back to us. image )




    Robert

    image

    My Auctions
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm in Montana (courtesy of the US Air Force)...originally from San Diego California. I began buying packs of cards when I was 7 years old in 1970, and began really collecting in 1975 when I bought the 1975 Topps Padres and Reds team sets from Larry Fritsch.


    Steve
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