1990-91 Upper Deck Looney Tunes Baseball cards. I was crazy about these cards. Fortunately, I still have a binder full of them seeing how their extremely rare and highly collectible. You can't find them ANYWHERE! I remember my brother opening up tons of 1990 Donruss packs. I remember thinking they were ugly cards, and I still think the 90 Donruss design is probably one of the ugliest card designs ever.
1974 baseball, my brother ask me to go in and buy the packs and he would give me the gum. He had the funds but was embarrased about buying 10-20 packs at a time, I didn't care, it was all about the gum then.
Have 8 mm evidence of opening batman wax packs on my 4th bday party in 1966 but first pack I can remember is a 1970 1st series baseball pack. The first couple of cards I remember getting tied exactly to the uncut sheet sequence when I finally found a photo of it.
<< <i>Have 8 mm evidence of opening batman wax packs on my 4th bday party in 1966 but first pack I can remember is a 1970 1st series baseball pack. The first couple of cards I remember getting tied exactly to the uncut sheet sequence when I finally found a photo of it. >>
John,
I'm not sure what's more remarkable--that someone filmed you opening 1966 Batman packs (if so, please upload to You Tube!) or that you remember the sequence of cards you pulled from a 1970 wax pack, LOL..
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
I posted this years ago on the 72 thread in the Set Registry Forum. Kids I assure you. We all wore pants like that back then.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
I remember opening 1978 Topps baseball and football packs with my dad back as a kid in 1978. Not really sure if I was a set collector at that time but loved the idea of getting it for the gum. We bought so many of these packs from 7-11 down the street from my house that we eventually bought them out. I was forced to buy Donruss packs of some rock in roll group called Kiss to satisfy the gum desire. Those days were the best when you could buy a pack for a quarter.
Looking for high grade rookie cards and unopened boxes/cases
1975 Topps wax packs (regular not the minis). I got two packs for my 8th birthday. I still remember I pulled a Frank White. Not sure how I remember because I was just starting to get into following baseball at the time and didn't know any of the players aside from Stargell and Dave Parker.
Spring of 1968, in the back of the car on the way home from church on a Sunday after my parents and I had stopped at a ma and pa grocery store to pick up the Sunday papers. Pulled a Hank Aaron #110. Better yet ... I still have the Aaron.
<< <i>I'm always impressed with what people remember and their age.
I have to be honest.
I have no idea. >>
Stone, given the picture you keep posting of you on your day off, I would guess Sweet Caporal cigarettes?
My first baseball pack was 1981 Donruss if I recall correctly... not sure why Donruss instead of Topps.
I don't think I opened too much baseball that year, but I fondly remember putting together 1981 Topps football and hockey sets from opening packs from weekly grocery runs with Mom.
The first trading cards I remember opening were Charlie's Angels from a few years earlier.
<< <i>I posted this years ago on the 72 thread in the Set Registry Forum. Kids I assure you. We all wore pants like that back then.
>>
That is cool!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
1963 Topps - they were gorgeous cards just out of the pack. The guy who drove the Ice Cream truck sold them. I remember the times when I had a quarter and could buy FIVE packs! Sit in the front yard and rip them all open. Then there were the awful days when he was out of packs, and sometimes it took 4 or 5 days to get more. I've still got a big box full of 63, 64, and 65 Topps cards cuz Mom never threw them out! Those were great summer days for sure.
Can't say for sure, but I think it might have been 1979 Burger King Yankees.
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
1981-82 Topps Basketball. I remember getting a Magic Johnson and thinking that was the neatest name in the world.
I too have a similar picture of me from the early 80s. I had my pajamas on with me mid 80s cards spread all over the floor. I might have to dig it out at my parents house.
Really fun looking at the responses. As i sit in tampa airport waiting to leave this freezing friggin weather and get back to long island I would guess that 1964 or 1965 topps baseball was my first pack.
STAY HEALTHY!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Baseball 84T (Rack from supermarket) Hockey 78/79T (Wax from ice cream truck) Football 85T (Rack from supermarket) Basketball 90ish (Wax from LCS) Non-Sport -- going to be a close call between Star Wars (series 2/4), Welcome Back Kotter and Mork and Mindy (all from bags of wax packs my mom got for halloween one year -- except the series 4...not sure where that came from)
Radford Virginia probably sometime in late 1973. Grocery bags full of 1972 Topps Football and Basbeball Rack packs. Dad bought out the entire general store. So many. Still the center piece of my collecting. Favorite year in all four sports now. Dad paid 5 or 10 cents a rack pack and bought the entire store out. Still one of my fondest childhood memories.
<< <i>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 have one. When I grabbed one pack, she said "no, one box"
YES! Those were 1959 Topps and I took home a whole box! >>
If we're talking 36 packs of nickel packs, that's $1.80, or $14.24 adjusted for inflation. You must've had quite a generous mommy! Pull any Mickeys or Mays or whatnot?
1975 Mini (not reg). I had no idea what I was opening but the colors were mesmerizing. First packs en-masse 1977 Topps praying with each pack for the Mark Fidrych rookie. Never did get one that year. My idiot friend who was into wacky-packs and star wars cards bought ONE pack from a 7-11 late that year, and you guessed it...
1977 Topps cello with Chris Chambliss showing from a candy store in the Bronx off the Grand Concourse. Guess it was the Summer of Sam, in retrospect. The Bronx was burning!
1974 Topps Baseball. I was six years old and remember getting a Sparky Anderson in my first pack. I still have the card and treasure it, rounded corners and all.
1986 topps @ grandma's house, my dad was a big basketball fan and that x-mas my and my brothers stocking was stuffed with 86-87 fleer basketball packs. I found some of those beaters in a box some years back. (didn't know you shouldn't play with your cards I was 10)
My first pack as a child would have been 1968. I have no idea what I got but I sure wish I had all of those cards "my mom threw out"...........................I remember having shoeboxes full of 1968 through early 1970's. What I do still have is the one pack I bought in 1975 and it was the mini's I think. I did pull a Yaz in the pack. They are in pages somewhere and I have no idea how they survived until I started collecting a little more seriously in 1982. Bob
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1978 Topps baseball. I got an entire box (I believe from Price Club - now Costco). I remember opening some of the packs in the car on the way home. I loved the cards that had the All-Star badges and the Record Breakers.
You guys really have some terrific memories of your first pack opening experiences. Mine are not so vivid.
We moved to the USA in 1969 and lived with my uncle for a few months until my parents could get their own place. My cousins were huge Bruins fans and they still are more than 40 years later. They taught me the game of hockey while I was living with them. I believe that I gravitated towards hockey packs first because of their love of the game. I believe it was 1973 when I opened up my first hockey packs, but it could have easily been 1972. When I look through ebay for hockey cards I have memories of both years, so I may have started opening hockey packs in late 1972 and carried on into 1973.
As far as baseball goes my first packs were not until 1977 as I remember picking those up on the way home from my first year of Junior High school.
<< <i>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). >>
1981 Donruss for me as well, although I opened 1980 Topps FB prior to that. I still love both sets.
Not sure about my technical "first" wax pack but I remember riding my bike to Dairy Mart to buy 86 Topps packs. I was hooked. I can remember sitting on the hardwood floor in my bedroom and sorting the cards by teams. When they ran out of baseball packs I started buying 86 Topps football. I remember sitting on the couch with my Dad and him handing me a pack of football cards because he knew I needed Garin Veris to complete my Patriots team set. He asked for the piece of gum and when there was no Veris in the pack he pulled another out from behind the couch arm and said "here, I'll buy you a piece of gum." I wish I coukd tell you there was a Veris in the second pack, but the sea was angry that day, my friends.
Ended up trading about 300 doubles to my buddy's brother to get the Veris. My first of many wise trading card transactions.
Things really blew up for me in 1987 and I spent all my money on packs of Topps baseball. That set will always be special for me as well. I was pretty much untainted until 1989 and that's when the economy of baseball cards became known to me. But those were magical times. I'll never forget pulling 87 Fleer Will Clarks or 88 Fleer Mark Grace's from packs. That 1989 NLCS was something to behold. I felt like the game came down to either Clark or Grace.
Topps was everywhere and it was something special when I would go into a store and find Donruss or Fleer packs. I remember 1988 Donruss seemed to be everywhere though. I loved pulling Topps Gold Cup rookies, McGwire, Canseco, Greenwell, Seitzer, Burks.
I remember our family went on vacation the summer of 89 to Disneyworld. We were driving down from MA in my Dad's 85 Crown Victoria with me and my two sisters in the back seat. We would each get $20 to spend on vacation and always had to field the questions before any purchase "are you sure you want to spend your money on this? That $20 has to last you all week." Well we were on our way down through either VA or NC and stopped for gas. On the counter inside was a box of 89 Fleer baseball with probably 30 packs still in it. Well no stores where I lived in MA had any Fleer packs so the negotiations commenced on me trying to convince my parents that if the $20 is actually mine, then this is what I wanred and I would make due the rest of the week with just a couple dollars. I remember my Dad being staunchly against it but I eventually convinced my Mom and that box was mine. It was glorious and I was over the moon to rip some Fleer baseball.
I've got stacks and stacks of OPC wax boxes from the 1980s filling the upper shelfs in my closet at home. Those cards may never be worth anything but just turning on the light and walking into my closet puts a smile on my face like I was 10 years old again. And that, as they say, is priceless.
For me, it was 1978 T Baseball. I went with a friend of mine to a local drugstore (don't remember the name) in NW Indiana some time in the Spring of '78. He bought a stack of about 10 wax packs and 10 cellos. Not having nearly the same amount of cash, or interest, and not knowing whether to buy wax packs or cellos, I made it simple by buying 2 or 3 of each. Over the course of that spring and summer, the collecting bug bit me, and I amassed a collection of about 300 cards. I can't tell you the excitement of pulling any Cubs player from those packs. I never did pull a Molitor, Murray, or Ryan as far as I can remember. I still have a Schmidt, Carlton, B. Robinson, Brock, and a few other stars. Definite beaters. As you might have guessed, Indy78 is based on this story. I first collected baseball cards in 1978 in Indiana - Indy78.
My first pack was a 1970 Topps baseball bought at a Woolworths in Louisville KY. I was 10 years old and with my Dad. I could take you there now, but I don't remember the street. The Woolworth's is long gone. Don't remember what I got but I do remember they were 5¢ per pack and I got 2 packs. It was a sunny day in early fall of 1970. Funny how you can remember certain things like this but forget others.
<< <i>Fun and innocent times. I really miss those days. Logan >>
STAY HEALTHY!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
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I remember my brother opening up tons of 1990 Donruss packs. I remember thinking they were ugly cards, and I still think the 90 Donruss design is probably one of the ugliest card designs ever.
<< <i>1987 Topps baseball. That worthless set will always be special to me >>
LOL - me too
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972
<< <i>Have 8 mm evidence of opening batman wax packs on my 4th bday party in 1966 but first pack I can remember is a 1970 1st series baseball pack. The first couple of cards I remember getting tied exactly to the uncut sheet sequence when I finally found a photo of it. >>
John,
I'm not sure what's more remarkable--that someone filmed you opening 1966 Batman packs (if so, please upload to You Tube!) or that you remember the sequence of cards you pulled from a 1970 wax pack, LOL..
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>I'm always impressed with what people remember and their age.
I have to be honest.
I have no idea. >>
Stone, given the picture you keep posting of you on your day off, I would guess Sweet Caporal cigarettes?
My first baseball pack was 1981 Donruss if I recall correctly... not sure why Donruss instead of Topps.
I don't think I opened too much baseball that year, but I fondly remember putting together 1981 Topps football and hockey sets from opening packs from weekly grocery runs with Mom.
The first trading cards I remember opening were Charlie's Angels from a few years earlier.
Snorto~
<< <i>I posted this years ago on the 72 thread in the Set Registry Forum. Kids I assure you. We all wore pants like that back then.
That is cool!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
"Molon Labe"
Basketball - 1986 Fleer
Football - 1983 Fleer
Hockey - 1980 Topps
Non-Sport - 1977 Star Wars Series Two
WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
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Dave
I too have a similar picture of me from the early 80s. I had my pajamas on with me mid 80s cards spread all over the floor. I might have to dig it out at my parents house.
Shane
1970 Football
1970-71 Basketball
1971 Baseball
1971-72 Hockey
Non sports : 1973 Wacky Packs, one of the early series, not sure which one.
First cello pack opened was 1970 Topps Football.
Nice pants Mrpeanut. It's cool your parents took a picture
of you and your cards.
I would guess that 1964 or 1965 topps baseball was my first pack.
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Hockey 78/79T (Wax from ice cream truck)
Football 85T (Rack from supermarket)
Basketball 90ish (Wax from LCS)
Non-Sport -- going to be a close call between Star Wars (series 2/4), Welcome Back Kotter and Mork and Mindy (all from bags of wax packs my mom got for halloween one year -- except the series 4...not sure where that came from)
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Ralph
D's: 54S,53P,50P,49S,45D+S,44S,43D,41S,40D+S,39D+S,38D+S,37D+S,36S,35D+S,all 16-34's
Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
74T: 241,435,610,654 97 Finest silver: 115,135,139,145,310
73T:31,55,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,80,152,165,189,213,235,237,257,341,344,377,379,390,422,433,453,480,497,545,554,563,580,606,613,630
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<< <i>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 have one. When I grabbed one pack, she said "no, one box"
YES! Those were 1959 Topps and I took home a whole box!
If we're talking 36 packs of nickel packs, that's $1.80, or $14.24 adjusted for inflation. You must've had quite a generous mommy!
D's: 54S,53P,50P,49S,45D+S,44S,43D,41S,40D+S,39D+S,38D+S,37D+S,36S,35D+S,all 16-34's
Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
74T: 241,435,610,654 97 Finest silver: 115,135,139,145,310
73T:31,55,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,80,152,165,189,213,235,237,257,341,344,377,379,390,422,433,453,480,497,545,554,563,580,606,613,630
95 Ultra GM Sets: Golden Prospects,HR Kings,On-Base Leaders,Power Plus,RBI Kings,Rising Stars
The only pull I remember was Dan Petry.
Previous to that, I had only bought non-sport packs (mostly Star Wars and Superman).
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Tim
Bob
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We moved to the USA in 1969 and lived with my uncle for a few months until my parents could get their own place. My cousins were huge Bruins fans and they still are more than 40 years later. They taught me the game of hockey while I was living with them. I believe that I gravitated towards hockey packs first because of their love of the game. I believe it was 1973 when I opened up my first hockey packs, but it could have easily been 1972. When I look through ebay for hockey cards I have memories of both years, so I may have started opening hockey packs in late 1972 and carried on into 1973.
As far as baseball goes my first packs were not until 1977 as I remember picking those up on the way home from my first year of Junior High school.
Donato
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<< <i>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). >>
1981 Donruss for me as well, although I opened 1980 Topps FB prior to that. I still love both sets.
I'm a little younger; 1982 Topps Baseball, and I still have the Jorge Bell Rookie I pulled from that pack. Can't part with it due to the memory.
Ended up trading about 300 doubles to my buddy's brother to get the Veris. My first of many wise trading card transactions.
Things really blew up for me in 1987 and I spent all my money on packs of Topps baseball. That set will always be special for me as well. I was pretty much untainted until 1989 and that's when the economy of baseball cards became known to me. But those were magical times. I'll never forget pulling 87 Fleer Will Clarks or 88 Fleer Mark Grace's from packs. That 1989 NLCS was something to behold. I felt like the game came down to either Clark or Grace.
Topps was everywhere and it was something special when I would go into a store and find Donruss or Fleer packs. I remember 1988 Donruss seemed to be everywhere though. I loved pulling Topps Gold Cup rookies, McGwire, Canseco, Greenwell, Seitzer, Burks.
I remember our family went on vacation the summer of 89 to Disneyworld. We were driving down from MA in my Dad's 85 Crown Victoria with me and my two sisters in the back seat. We would each get $20 to spend on vacation and always had to field the questions before any purchase "are you sure you want to spend your money on this? That $20 has to last you all week." Well we were on our way down through either VA or NC and stopped for gas. On the counter inside was a box of 89 Fleer baseball with probably 30 packs still in it. Well no stores where I lived in MA had any Fleer packs so the negotiations commenced on me trying to convince my parents that if the $20 is actually mine, then this is what I wanred and I would make due the rest of the week with just a couple dollars. I remember my Dad being staunchly against it but I eventually convinced my Mom and that box was mine. It was glorious and I was over the moon to rip some Fleer baseball.
I've got stacks and stacks of OPC wax boxes from the 1980s filling the upper shelfs in my closet at home. Those cards may never be worth anything but just turning on the light and walking into my closet puts a smile on my face like I was 10 years old again. And that, as they say, is priceless.
Fun and innocent times. I really miss those days.
Logan
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<< <i>Fun and innocent times. I really miss those days. Logan >>
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.