Today is my Cardboard Birthday!
mouschi
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Today, I turn 28 years old as a baseball card collector. I wrote about this last year when I found my journal from 1990, but thought it would be appropriate to post the pic today:
See? I've always been wild about cardboard 
When did you start collecting? Do you remember what it was you got?
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Happy Birthday!
I remember heading to the corner store every time I got my hands on cash. I had to get all the 81 Topps wax packs I could afford so I could complete my set. I sorted everything alphabetically and still can recite the teams in order without a problem.
Working on 56T BB and 80T BB
Looking to trade blocks of BB graded commons for other blocks of BB commons
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/sinibobcards/othersets/3205
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Don't remember the exact year, but I'm going to say I started collecting cards around 1965. Probably got really heavy into it in 1967, when I was 9 years old. Couldn't wait for "Pete's Deli" to get the cards in for that year. I guess the distributors delivered them in late March/early April. I would go to the deli every day waiting for the new shipment to arrive. Like most Delis and candy shops in my town, Pete's carried only the wax packs for a nickle each. You would have to go to the "Hobby Shop", which was on the other side of town, if you wanted to buy a cello pack. But at a dime each, most of us kids didn't always have enough to buy a cello, so we stuck with the wax packs for the most part.
One of my fondest memories was on my birthday each year. (I guess between the ages of 7 and 12.)
When I woke up, there would be a wax box at the foot of my bed, which my parents would purchase for $1.20. I was so psyched! I would rip those 24 packs open before I went to school. Thanks for the memories mom and dad!
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.
I remember buying 1987 topps, but I think the summer of 88 was really the start.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Great stories, guys!
1982 Topps here. I was 10 and I think some of the older kids fleeced my cards in trades as I have zero Ripken's from that year. I redeemed myself years ago with a case of vending. Fernando was a big deal too if I recall.
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
I started in the late 70's, but vividly remember collecting/chasing the 1980 topps set. loved that set still do. knew the players by heart. also remember the 87 topps set was older but my father bought me a box of those for some occasion and that started it again.
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
It was probably June of 1976. I remember my first encounter with a kid down the street from me. He was older by about 4 years or so. I remember him riding by and asking me if I wanted to ride to 7-11 and get Baseball cards. I was almost 7 and is really my oldest vivid memory. I also remember that summer we would go and get left over 75 minis at our local Kmart. I honestly remember them being in bags and not in packs?
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Same here, 1982 Topps was the beginning for me.
I purchased baseball and football packs with my allowance money when I was 11 and 12 years old. I didn't buy packs any other years while growing up. My cards were from 1968 and 1969. I vividly remember the colorful football cards from 1969. Gale Sayers was my favorite card. Packs were 5 cents and I would spend my whole allowance of one dollar to get 20 packs. My father used to tell me "sayings" when I came home with cards or candy or anything else I spent money on. He would say things like, "When the kids have money, the peddlers get rich." Hell, I didn't know what a peddler was. I was only 11. Growing up in West Virginia during the depression, needless to say, he wasn't supportive of my card purchases. He saw it as a waste of money.