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First pull, ever?

bobbybakerivbobbybakeriv Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭
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It is always interesting to hear about others' experiences collecting. The first card I remember pulling from a pack was a 1975 Topps Rowland Office. To this day, that card has sentimental value to me. Accurate or not, what is the first card that you guys' recall pulling? I didn't really start collecting hard until the next year, but I do remember Rowland. image

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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    I don't remember if it was my first pull or not but I did pull a 1976 Johnny Bench from the first pack I opened.

    I was about 6 years old. Funny thing is, I got in trouble for something I did and my mom really yelled at me. Later that day she came home with a bunch of packs for me to rip because she felt bad for the way she treated me image

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  • bobbybakerivbobbybakeriv Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭
    What a great first pull recollection! That card is one of the all-time best IMHO.
  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    i remember pulling a rickey henderson rc, but i dont remember if it was the 1st pull ever?

    stipulations are for chumps

    j
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  • bobbybakerivbobbybakeriv Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>i remember pulling a rickey henderson rc, but i dont remember if it was the 1st pull ever?

    stipulations are for chumps

    j >>



    Not following you, J. Stipulations? Are you meaning IMHO?
  • wronglegwrongleg Posts: 441 ✭✭
    I don't remember my first pull but I do remember my first cards given to me in 1978 by a friend. I got 13 cards from him which included my first double Bob Stinson. My dad started buying me cards after that.
  • metalmikemetalmike Posts: 2,152 ✭✭
    My first "pull" was a 1970 Harmon Killerbud card. I liked him cause he hit home runs and he played in the great white north. And the Corn Flakes too. Hee Hee
    USN 1977-1987 * ALL cards are commons unless auto'd. Buying Britneycards. NWO for life.
  • metalmikemetalmike Posts: 2,152 ✭✭
    349 am est I am drumk a gain ....my first pull was some yippie from Alameda. what?
    USN 1977-1987 * ALL cards are commons unless auto'd. Buying Britneycards. NWO for life.
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,253 ✭✭✭
    I think mine was a 1978 Topps Reggie Jackson Record Breaker. I was 8 when I saw Reggie hit the 3 HRs in a game...I instantly became a Yankees fan. I then found out they made cards with GUM in the packs! woo hoo! Thats when I became a collector!
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My first pull ever? Where do I begin? The year was 1978 and I was about 12 at the time. I was the only one at home that evening, Three's Company had just come on, and Chrissy was wearing this really tight top......
  • Ladder7Ladder7 Posts: 1,221 ✭
    68-69 OPC Bobby Orr -Only one left from childhood. (Not first pull, but in my first few packs)
    some cards
  • fur72fur72 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭
    1982 Topps was my first rip. All I wanted was a Bill Buckner! Took me more than 20 years but I finally got the card out of vending box. I had some older kids in my neighborhood that took advantage of me and basically filled holes in their sets by trading with me.
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  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,602 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>......I had some older kids in my neighborhood that took advantage of me...... >>



    Not an easy sentence to write.
  • jimmygjimmyg Posts: 139 ✭✭
    1983 Topps Wade Boggs. I put it into a 9-pocket page. I liked that card so much that I colored the rim with a green marker (on the nine-pocket page) to show everybody who looked at my album (me and my two dogs) that it was an important card. I never could stay in the lines very well and colored most of the top border of the card. Traded it a couple years later for an '85 Topps Gooden with a wicked crease in the bottom left corner. Life was good.

  • 1123581311235813 Posts: 610
    1977 Topps Larvell Blanks....remember opening a whole box of 1977 Topps and sorting them into teams on the floor of my grandma's living room...
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    1979 Topps Rob Picciolo That's the first year I bought packs from a local variety store called "The Treasury". I'm not 100% sure if that's the first card from the pack, but I swear I used to get him it seemed like every other pack. I bought 11 packs of the 79's from the group rip that should be here today, and I bet you I pull some more Picciolo's!!!

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  • HighChopperHighChopper Posts: 1,091
    I remember pulling those '74 San Diego "Nationals" cards. Still got 'em, too. Winfield and McCovey and friends.

    1974 San Diego "Nationals" are chumps.
    There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in.
  • AragornTheBoldAragornTheBold Posts: 613
    When I was younger baseball wasn't a huge thing for me so I didn't buy packs. I did however pull a first edition Charizard from a pack so yeah I was cool
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭


    << <i>My first pull ever? Where do I begin? The year was 1978 and I was about 12 at the time. I was the only one at home that evening, Three's Company had just come on, and Chrissy was wearing this really tight top...... >>



    then it must have been a Yankee.....
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,602 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>.....I bought 11 packs of the 79's from the group rip that should be here today, and I bet you I pull some more Picciolo's!!! >>



    Please do not pull your Picciolo in front of us Mike.
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    i was wondering how long it was going to take for the thread to spiral downward lol.
  • bobbybakerivbobbybakeriv Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>i was wondering how long it was going to take for the thread to spiral downward lol. >>



    Oh, I knew the risks involved... still a good thread. image
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,602 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>i was wondering how long it was going to take for the thread to spiral downward lol. >>



    Three better than average jokes by me in this thread, and finally a little recognition.
  • TheDudeAbidesTheDudeAbides Posts: 400 ✭✭✭
    I probably just turned 7, and we were coming back from church. Stopped at a local Ma & Pa grocery store. On the way home, in the back of a 67 Buick I pulled this Aaron. Don't remember any of the other cards, just mildly disappointed I didn't get any Cubs. This is my first time trying to add a picture, hope it came out all right.

    Collecting 64, 66, 67, 70 & 71 Baseball. Cubs, wax, cello & rack baseball.
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    "On the way home, in the back of a 67 Buick I pulled this Aaron"

    ....and the rest was history....
  • gogosox55gogosox55 Posts: 18
    Usually just lurk for all the great information, but my first pack of cards was a 1955 bowman, 9 cards for a nickel and a great big piece of gum. The first card I can remember pulling was a Nellie Fox, for a 11 year old White Sox fan and a Fox fan to boot, that was it, I was hooked.


    Richard

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  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    I was 6 years old and had just strated really getting into baseball. I was at Wal-Mart with my mom and she let me buy one of the brand new 2001 Bowman Chrome packs for $3.99. I felt ripped because the pack was one card short, but then I looked at what I thought was an advertisement and I had to get me mom to help me mail off the redemption for the other card of Albert Pujols. I pronounced his last name PUDGOLS until I finnaly heard it said on TV.
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    Actually I think my first pull was from 1990 Donruss boxes from Big & Small Lots.
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