First pull, ever?

bobbybakeriv · July 4, 2008 4:26PM

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.

lawnmowerman · July 4, 2008 4:36PM

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

bobbybakeriv · July 4, 2008 4:52PM

What a great first pull recollection! That card is one of the all-time best IMHO.

julen23 · July 4, 2008 4:53PM

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

stipulations are for chumps

j

bobbybakeriv · July 4, 2008 4:56PM

<< 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?

wrongleg · July 4, 2008 5:31PM

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.

metalmike · July 4, 2008 5:47PM

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

metalmike · July 4, 2008 5:52PM

349 am est I am drumk a gain ....my first pull was some yippie from Alameda. what?

yankeeno7 · July 4, 2008 8:18PM

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!

nam812 · July 4, 2008 9:09PM

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......

Ladder7 · July 4, 2008 9:48PM

68-69 OPC Bobby Orr -Only one left from childhood. (Not first pull, but in my first few packs)

fur72 · July 4, 2008 11:21PM

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.

nam812 · July 4, 2008 11:25PM

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

Not an easy sentence to write.

jimmyg · July 5, 2008 12:04AM

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.

11235813 · July 5, 2008 12:34AM

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...

thenavarro · July 5, 2008 12:58AM

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!!!

HighChopper · July 5, 2008 1:02AM

I remember pulling those '74 San Diego "Nationals" cards. Still got 'em, too. Winfield and McCovey and friends.

1974 San Diego "Nationals" are chumps.

AragornTheBold · July 5, 2008 1:08AM

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

itzagoner · July 5, 2008 1:11AM

<< 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.....

nam812 · July 5, 2008 1:12AM

<< .....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.

BobaFett72 · July 5, 2008 1:22AM

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

bobbybakeriv · July 5, 2008 1:37AM

<< 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.

nam812 · July 5, 2008 1:43AM

<< 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.

TheDudeAbides · July 5, 2008 2:00AM

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.

BobaFett72 · July 5, 2008 2:02AM

"On the way home, in the back of a 67 Buick I pulled this Aaron"

....and the rest was history....

gogosox55 · July 5, 2008 2:10AM

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

Allen · July 5, 2008 3:53AM

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.

Allen · July 5, 2008 3:55AM

Actually I think my first pull was from 1990 Donruss boxes from Big & Small Lots.

First pull, ever?

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