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What was the first pack of BB cards you ever opened? (serious responses, only)

EchoCanyonEchoCanyon Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭
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Mine was 1971.
My Dad was given a box or two by a co-worker. He put them on top of the fridge, which to a 6 year old, was unreachable on many levels.
Every night, he would come home and hand a pack to the 3 of us.
(No, we didn't keep them).
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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭
    Not sure, but I think it was either a 1979 Burger King Yankees pack, or a 1980 Topps baseball.
  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1985 Topps Baseball
  • billwaltonsbeardbillwaltonsbeard Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭✭
    1987 Topps baseball. That worthless set will always be special to me
    My cards on COMC
  • totallyraddtotallyradd Posts: 943 ✭✭✭✭
    I first remember opening packs in 87 or 88, Topps. But my parents bought me packs starting in 82.
  • ExodusExodus Posts: 348 ✭✭✭
    The 1971-1975 packs were the first.
    Then came girls. Packs took a big back seat after that.
  • PhilGPhilG Posts: 237 ✭✭
    1954 Topps. I was in third grade at the time.
    Phil

    My Hoard of 93 Finest Refractors and 94 Pinnacle Artist Proofs and Museums

  • Big80sBig80s Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭


    << <i>1985 Topps Baseball >>



    +1
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    Jeff
  • mcadamsmcadams Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭
    1984 Donruss from my grandmother's rural grocery store.
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    Always buying Bobby Cox inserts. PM me.
  • 1980scollector1980scollector Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭
    1984 Fleer Cello Pack- Pulled a Yaz.
    ** Working on the following sets-2013 Spectra Football Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Autograph set, 2015 Spectra Football Illustrious Legends Autograph set, 2014-15 Hall of Fame Heroes autograph set. **
  • 76collector76collector Posts: 986 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1987 Topps baseball. That worthless set will always be special to me

    +1 - haha, although my first pack I remember opening was 83 topps, I really got excited in 87, so that set will always be special to me as well. Will Clark baby !
    I cannot hit curveball. Straightball I hit it very much. Curveball, bats are afraid.
    Collecting:
    post world war II HOF rookie
    76 topps gem mint 10 commons 9 stars
    Arenado purple refractors(Rockies) Red (Cardinals)
    successful deals with Keevan, Grote15, 1954, mbogoman
  • scmavlscmavl Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭
    It must've been '81 Donruss. I don't remember opening the pack but I remember having a few of those cards as a kid (specifically the Ron Oester card).
    2.5 is pretty much my speed.
  • robert67robert67 Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭✭
  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,558 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1973-74 Topps Hockey followed by 1974 Topps Baseball.

    edit: Bought 'em at the old Woolworth's in Mattapan Square.
    Mike
    Bosox1976
  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    1978

    Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,745 ✭✭✭
    1977. Football as well.


    Thanks,

    David (LD_Ferg)



    1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1981 Topps from "Peppercorns Food Station". My allowance was always spent on baseball cards, button candy and Gator Gum.

    MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940

  • MrVintageMrVintage Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭
    87 topps baseball for me as well
  • JaktJakt Posts: 573 ✭
    1986 Topps Baseball - I probably opened packs before that, but these are the first I remember.
    I'm building a 1968 and a 1970 Topps set. I have lots of 1970s and 1960s to offer in trade.
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    '70 Topps 4th series, early August '70.

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • Foo3112Foo3112 Posts: 1,961
    I clearly remember having 1986 Topps and although I didn't know any teams or players, I always liked how the A's cards looked like and they became my favorite team from there - at least for a long time.
  • ChiefsFan1stChiefsFan1st Posts: 845 ✭✭✭


    << <i>87 topps baseball for me as well >>



    +3
    I dont wanna grow up, Im a Toys-R-Us kid!
  • CocoaBeachDodgersCocoaBeachDodgers Posts: 750 ✭✭✭
    I remember it like it was yesterday. My mom & I were downtown LA shopping, we went into one of those basement stores. There in front of me was a table of boxes and packs. I was hoping my mom would get me a couple of packs so I ask her. She said I could heve one. When I grabbed one pack, she said "no, one box"

    YES! Those were 1959 Topps and I took home a whole box!
    image
  • 1all1all Posts: 511 ✭✭✭
    Mine was 1976 Football packs that were left over in 1977 - I was 7yo. I proceeded to draw the "1000 yarder" football on the front of any player who had 1000 yards (rushing/passing/receiving - didn't matter). When I was 8yo, I realized my mistake I grabbed my markers and tried to fill in the football with the background color of the card (as if that would correct my mistake!). Ahh, the good old 70's!

    Doug
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm always impressed with what people remember and their age.

    I have to be honest.

    I have no idea.
    Mike
  • BenG76BenG76 Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭
    The first Baseball cards I remember opening were 86 Topps. I may have opened some before but I cant recall it.
  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭
    I guess I am OOOLLLDDD.

    It was 64 or 65 Topps

    I loved playing the game 'leaners'

    We would through the cards up against a cement wall and first person to get one to
    lean against the wall would win all the cards.

    What fun!! image

    Joe
    EBAY AUCTIONS
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I guess I am OOOLLLDDD.

    It was 64 or 65 Topps

    I loved playing the game 'leaners'

    We would through the cards up against a cement wall and first person to get one to
    lean against the wall would win all the cards.

    What fun!! image

    Joe >>

    Hiya Joe

    We played a game like that also - with a little difference - since getting a card to lean would be pretty tough.

    We threw them against the curb - closest to the curb wins - if someone pitched a "leaner?"

    Leaner pays "Double!"
    Mike
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    1978 Topps. Love them to this day (but Im not about to spend thousands on a psa set LOL)
  • 70ToppsFanatic70ToppsFanatic Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭✭
    1970 Topps cellos 4th series....3 BOXES OF THEM!

    I still have most of the green boxes that the cellos came in too!


    Dave
  • MeferMefer Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭
    1978 Topps baseball. It remains my all time favorite Topps issue.

    Matt
  • ConstantineConstantine Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭
    1987 Topps baseball. Bought a couple of boxes as a kid at Costco. That should have been a glaring sign there were millions of them!
  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭
    Mike

    That was the Good old days when the gum was just as important as the cards.

    Joe
    EBAY AUCTIONS
  • MisterBungleMisterBungle Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭

    Mine was 1961 Topps Baseball.

    I was 10 years old at the time, and we
    lived in Greenville, SC. There was a
    steep hill leading down to a major road.
    Across this road was a small store.

    Whenever I had some change, sometime
    from selling empty pop bottles, I would
    go down to the store and buy a pack or
    two of cards.

    Problem is, fireworks were legal in South
    Carolina, so the baseball cards had to
    compete with firecrackers for my money.

    Honestly, the fireworks were more fun,
    but the baseball cards lasted longer,
    plus the gum was awesome, and the
    gum smell on the cards was something
    I miss now when looking at my almost
    complete set of '61s.

    Ahh, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

    ~

    ~


    "America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

  • PiggsPiggs Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭
    Bought '74 Topps from the Circle K on the way home from school. Always looking for card #1 of Hank Aaron.
  • RynoandBoRynoandBo Posts: 393 ✭✭
    1985 Topps Baseball. Loved every Cubs card...and the Davey Lopes in the A's uniform, "Now With Cubs"
    My Perfect 10 Ryne Sandberg PSA Basic Set

    My #2 Ranked Michael Jordan PSA Basic Set
  • MiniDuffMiniDuff Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭
    1973 Topps wax pack from the Ice Cream Man. I had seen cards the year before, but this was my first very own pack. It had Bobby Murcer in it. That card is forever burned in my mind. My dad loved him and made a big deal about it.
    1975 Mini Collector
    ebay id Duffs_Dugout
    My Ebay Auctions
  • mygottamygotta Posts: 1,652
    1985 topps baseball
  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,481 ✭✭✭✭✭
    2001 Topps. Do i win the award for newest pack?
    What I Collect:

    PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 80.51% Complete)


    PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.80% Complete)


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  • schapkoschapko Posts: 341 ✭✭
    1981 Topps. I was really into collecting the stickers and putting them in the albums. I would always be disappointed when my mom would come home with baseball cards instead of stickers. I still have the stickers in the albums from 1981-1984 though.
    Buying 75 Topps Reg. Size PSA 9
    1975 Topps Registry Set "Scott's 75 Topps Set"
  • redlegsredlegs Posts: 950 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1974 Topps. First grade. Everyone was looking for the Hank Aaron and Pete Rose cards.
  • davelinkbeltdavelinkbelt Posts: 74
    1984 Topps rack packs.
    Working on 1971 Topps baseball set.
  • calaban7calaban7 Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭
    65 Topps Baseball , back in the day ---- Sonny
    " In a time of universal deceit , telling the truth is a revolutionary act " --- George Orwell
  • TJMACTJMAC Posts: 864 ✭✭
    1980 Topps Baseball, Football, Hockey and a little Basketball for me. I was 6 years old and collected with my older brother.
  • DCanfieldDCanfield Posts: 548 ✭
    1955 Bowman.
    Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'WOW What a Ride!' Mark Frost
  • cincyredlegscincyredlegs Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭
    The first pack I can honestly remember was 1979 Topps Baseball. I was 8 years old. My dad would get my brother and I packs either at the grocery store or drug store. I remember getting all excited when we pulled a Reds card especially Rose, Bench, Morgan, Foster or Concepcion. I still have all the cards we opened from those early years.

    Mark
    Project:

    T206 Set - 300/524
  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 8,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    '80 Topps. I vividly recall a blockbuster trade I had with a neighborhood friend that year. He gave me 15 Bob Welch cards, and I shot over 15.....



    Nah, I'm not gonna finish. Let's just say it wasn't a prescient move.

    you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet

  • MacrosBMacrosB Posts: 525 ✭✭✭
    1967 Topps but in 1971 my dad bought me my first full box to open so i could try to complete a set.

    Jim
    Looking for 66 and 69 OPC baseball
    60's OPC packs
    72 BB, 60's FB, 71FB, 73FB, 74FB, 75FB, 76FB, 78FB Rack Packs
    72 and earlier BB cello
  • BostonAmericansBostonAmericans Posts: 434 ✭✭
    1974 Topps. Given to me by my uncle.
    Collecting Topps Baseball: 1966-present base sets
    Topps/OPC Hockey 1966-Present base sets
  • zurbs17zurbs17 Posts: 442
    1979 OPC Baseball. I would have been 10 years old. I really only collected hockey cards but a friend and I bought some packs of these, spread all the cards on the floor and took turns picking which cards we wanted. Neither of us had a favorite team or knew much about baseball so I think we picked cards based on the player's hair. I think we both still have the handful of cards somewhere.
  • DodgerfanjohnDodgerfanjohn Posts: 491 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The first pack I can honestly remember was 1979 Topps Baseball. I was 8 years old. My dad would get my brother and I packs either at the grocery store or drug store. I remember getting all excited when we pulled a Reds card especially Rose, Bench, Morgan, Foster or Concepcion. I still have all the cards we opened from those early years.

    Mark >>



    1980 Topps. I went nuts whenever I'd pull that Garvey All Star card. Same age...8 years old.
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